Word: shields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...stuff of romance is in this book;--hard riding Celts sweeping down upon Saxon shield walls; Drusus, prefect of the Damnonian March, leading forth the remnants of Roman civilization in Britain to quell the barbarian invaders; love, conspiracy, and battle in Lyonesse in the tumultuous days which followed the death of King Arthur...
...Koran, hitherto safe behind a dark shield of impenetrable Arabic, has been officially circulated in Turkish to defend itself, naked, before common sense...
Several new features had been added to the makeup of last year. The binding will be flexible leather with lettering and Harvard shield in gilt. Owing to appreciative comment received by Mr. Wiener last year for the frontispiece, an airplane view of the Stadium, the editor has decided to repeat it in this year's book. The hat bands and insignia of the various clubs, instead of being scattered through the book, however, have been grouped together. The directory will contain the home and college addresses of all students and officers of the University. Other sections will be devoted...