Word: escutcheon
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...Richard, came over. His son Henry graduated in the first Harvard class, whence he went back and became a fellow at Oxford. His nephew Nathaniel graduated in 1659, Nathaniel's son Richard II in 1695, Richard III in 1722, Richard IV in 1751. All four of these carried the escutcheon of justice in Haverhill...
...presided in the absence of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Master of the House. J. Spence Harvin, chairman of the House committee gave Jackson a humidor as a gift from the undergraduate members of Leverett House, and the poetry-writing janitor was also presented with a testimonial bearing the Rabbit escutcheon and the signatures of the 300 diners. Jackson had been janitor of the House since it was founded eight years...
...brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows...
...next morning was he shown the folly of his ways, when a soul-stirring expression of sympathy poured out of his mail-box. A distant collegiate acquaintance, driven by passion to the extremity of correspondence, pointed out how grossly maligned Harvard had been, how irreparably besmudged her lovely escutcheon. "Demand satisfaction at once!" the letter urged. "Oh, dear, if such a thing should happen to Yale...
...temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets involved in so many affairs that neither he nor the reader can keep them straight...