Word: shields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last November official Austria celebrated her 80th birthday. White hair piled high like a coronet, figure carried as proudly as it once held Brunnhilde's shield, Lilli Lehmann heard President Michael Hainisch confer on her the title of "Professor," listened as he rehearsed her glorious performances at the Vienna Opera in the days of the Empire, her efforts in behalf of the Mozart Festivals in Salzburg...
...planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only incidentally that worn by burglars, and its purpose is not to conceal but to exalt...
...name of the winner of Freshman fall sports will be inscribed on the shield in each of the dormitories...
...These make him wince, so he seeks to shield himself and his record behind a religious issue?an issue which he himself raised unfairly in this campaign...
...includes in the distance the Golden Gate; near to the eye, Stanford University grounds; and, chiefly, a great redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President...