Word: crested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last week the crest of the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., was 36.5 ft., only one inch below the 1943 record. Road conditions in Missouri were reported "the worst in a hundred years." The Cottonwood, the Neosho, the Little Arkansas, the Chickaskia and the Osage Rivers were at alltime highs. The Mississippi burst through levees from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, flooded a million acres. A 20-ft. wall of water cascaded over Illinois farmland when a levee crumpled. The placid Schuylkill spilled over its banks near Philadelphia. Twelve were dead, thousands homeless. Tornadoes, ripping through 14 states from...
...Lord Catto last week explained his crest, which is "Touch not gloveless." Said he: "It Is a Scots motto, and means literally, do not touch the cat with a gloveless hand; it may scratch you. Appropriate, yes, but it has nothing to do with my name. The College of Heralds would not make a pun, you snow. Catto means fight, battle...
...1920s, when U.S. prosperity was at its crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...
...Lame & the Blind. The wounded men and their helpers began trickling down from the crest. A man with most of his shoulder shot away was guiding a blinded man. One limped along. The litter team carried a sergeant whose leg was bad and whose face was cut. Captain Wozenski had to detail some whole men to help. I took the arm of the blinded...