Word: blazoning
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...Svinhufvud, mistranslated "Pig's Head," means "Boar's Head." The name derives from the family crest, an aristocratic blazon which the Svinhufvuds share with the Dukes of Argyll, Harvard's Porcellian Club and Gordon...
...blazon of Henry Dunster, which is on the right wing of the House, facing the river, is to the casual observer just three more elks with the top of a castle and a bent arm on top, but here is the official description: "Arms...
...Ronald is high in chivalry, can match order for order with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both have an imposing row of subsidiary ribbons to blazon their lapels. Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor...
...fanfare of December and the blazon of February have both died. The most that can be expected of the second Reading Period is that it should render to its authors results of equal conclusiveness with those of the first Reading Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...
...Boston, one John Wilder, 80, Vermont fiddler, did not hesitate to blazon far and wide that he is an uncle of President Coolidge. He announced that he had read of the exploits of "Mellie" Dunham, famed "fiddler-to-Ford," and is prepared to play for the fiddling championship of New England. A few credulous, unmusical reporters were impressed when Mr. Wilder displayed his violin. "I tell you it's nearly 100 years...