Word: argent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tories wavered between laughter and pro test at this new expropriation. The heraldic description of this new Socialist symbol runs: "Per feese argent and sable three fusils conjoined in feese counter charged. The supporters - on either side a lion sable charged on the shoulder with a sun in splendour or." The board's announcement dotted the "i" of Author J. B. Priestley's comment, printed a day before in the New Statesman and Nation: "We are revolutionaries who have not swept away anything...
...Royal Standard with the addition of a label of three points argent, the center point charged with a thistle slipped and leaved proper, and each of the other points with a Tudor rose...
...midnight last week, while cameras snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would...
Thus, last summer, the Army took its deepest plunge into higher education. It has worked out swimmingly. Biarritz American University, a full-fledged university set amid the splendors of the fashionable Cote d'Argent, has already graduated an eight-week class of 4,000, is now schooling 4,000 more. They are probably the most contented G.l.s in Europe...
...acres, Chatsworth House, Hardwick Hall, Bolton Abbey, Compton Place, Lismore Castle in Ireland and a town house in Carlton Gardens (now a heap of blitzed rubble). The Cavendishes rank well up among the "twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...