Word: blazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume...
Fighting Fool. In 1943 the papers suddenly began to blazon his name. Spruance got a new duty. Spruance was put in command of a Central Pacific fleet (later designated the Fifth Fleet). On a day in February he became a full admiral-at 57 the youngest in the Navy...
Russia has withdrawn from the heartland of Central Asia. Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority. Its alomans blazon with fresh white paint as far as the high Pamirs and dark-eyed dancers of the oases tread out, to the measured beat of tambourines, new dances dedicated to "final victory...
...management ice with a joint banquet for 800 company officials, union leaders and Army-Navy brass hats. Since then it has been easy. Packard employes wear little "Work to Win" badges,* paste windshield stickers on their cars. In the rambling Packard plants, huge 15-ft. red, white & blue billboards blazon new worker-composed slogans each week, twin scoreboards tally each department's efficiency and production. At plant entrances toy soldiers march across miniature battlefields to show how each division's record compares with all others...
...they enter this show visitors are greeted by the insistent voice of President Roosevelt demanding ". . . 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks. . . ." The voice from the loudspeaker pursues them down a corridor where newspaper headlines blazon the depressing progress of the war. They emerge into a still uglier room with blown-up photographs of men sleeping on benches, in cars...