Word: couchant
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That Sir John of all Britons should handshake Herr Hitler was what most infuriated Frenchmen. They are resigned to "perfidious Albion" in the traditional role of Justice, upholding Europe's balance of power-with the British Lion couchant on the fulcrum. But even by his closest friends Sir John has long been considered a sincere friend of France, sincerely appalled by Nazidom. In London, as well as in Paris last week, an unflattering impression prevailed that Sir John saw his mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order...
...showing of cats in art at the little Maurel Gallery year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita, and a superb cat poster by the late great Théophile Steinlen...
...doubt the prime piece is the figure of a lion couchant in terra cotta with an all over turquoise colored glaze which has in time taken on an irridesence not unlike that of the Han dynasty in China. Here is a boldness of design, a delicacy and subtlety of modelling that makes it one of the great pieces of Babylonian naturalistic without being imitative, and conventionalized without being studied. It has neither the dull realism of much of the late Assyrian works nor the unnatural grotesqueness of many early Sumerian works; coming in the era that it does one finds...
...recovered from weekend and refuses to throw in farther than second from center field. Burnham elected pitcher by rising vote. Team will draw lots for batting order tonight. Team finished practice stiff but happy. Soft ball will be in good shape for Saturday Insignia box car couchant on field of buckwheat in hoe signo vincet...
...example of huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi" And I said, "My son, remember this and live up to it as I have done...