Word: escutcheon
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...Club, in which he'd enjoyed honorary membership "for his past and present services to the Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked the Liberal witch at her Cumberland cottage, called "Witchwood": "Poor Mr. Wilson. I didn't even cast a spell...
...Medieval tradition though, at times, he too felt the pressure of Renaissance idealism. The younger Holbein, (see figure 1) representing a new generation drew the idealized figures and solid forms of the Renaissance with little nostalgia for the spirit of the Middle Ages (see his Two Lansquenets Boring an Escutcheon...
...others. Labor began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson: "Neither Monty nor Rommel asked...
...Cover ) For seven generations, one European family has dominated an incredible part of all that money can buy. Its escutcheon-a profusion of noble coronets, intrepid lions and soaring eagles-is carved in stone amidst the proudest vineyards of Bordeaux. On the Continent's most prized race horses, its blue and yellow colors proclaim a devotion to the sport of kings that has produced profit as well as pleasure. From its London and Paris banks, the family's millions have been sent forth to back more than 100 business enterprises on six continents. Some of its stately dwellings...
...Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace at Amorbach...