Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, which occupies the center of the picture in Widener. The window is divided into six panels, three upper ones and three lower ones. The lower set of panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater of John Harvard...
...long unknown fact became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced...
...shade they betray a dangerous radical. Ever meticulous in matters of dress Paris was astounded when M. Painleve, President of this enchanter of Deputies, appeared at his own reception wearing a turned down collar and a disarranged tie. And when the Under Secretary of State for Aviation opened his coat and exhibited a black waistcoat, all Paris gasped. The tendencies of the Herriot government were becoming too liberal to be suffered...
...time came for the race; Nurmi did not appear. A messenger was sent to him, where he lurked in some hiding place unknown to all but his manager, Hugo Quist. Back came the messenger with the news that Nurmi would not run. At this, Manager Quist put on his coat, proceeded to a Turkish bath where Nurmi had been spending the evening, fetched him back. The flying Finn gave evidence of morose spirits. He had contracted a chest cold and had hurt his leg while swimming; hence his visit to the bath. He was tired. He jogged around the track...
Another quick turn of the coat is the latest stunt in the political career of Raisuli, the Moroccan Houdini. So many shifts from the Spanish to the Mohammedan sides of this little war, and then back again, have left all but his followers certain that he is, after all, only on his own side...