Word: escutcheon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is also a copy owned by Don Diego Cruzat of Pamplona. Navarre, whose ancestors fought in the Holy Land. This gentleman superimposed his escutcheon above the author's autograph, evidently believing it to be of greater importance. He was permitted to add the border azure, three Jerusalem crosses, to his escutcheon...
However, if such a thing may be suggested, the blot on the escutcheon of all Harvard men is due only in part to the causes suggested in the young ladies' lament. Vassar weekends may be too strenuous, but it seems illogical that mere walking should hold any terrors for those inured to the isolation of Cambridge classrooms...
John Hardyng's chronicle, bound in the original calf with the original brass clasps of 1590, is the first issue of the first edition. The elaborate bookplate on the fly-leaf bears the escutcheon of "Philip Lord Hardwicke, Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester...
Since 1905 a foul blot has stained the national checker escutcheon. In that year a team of British thinkers journeyed to Boston, administered an overwhelming defeat to the U. S. players. Last week in Manhattan the blot was removed. The U. S. team swamped the combined talent of England and Scotland, hopping to victory in each of the twelve rounds played...
...pride themselves on their culture, who would bitterly resent the slightest imputation that they were uncivilized, the mournful spectacle of thousands of Germans and Poles driven from their homes-gloomy men, weeping women and frightened children-must have caused the great Herald to draw a bar sinister across the escutcheon of civilization. Thus averred unbiased critics...