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...nineteenth century lamp post with a marker describing it as "The Eternal Flame of the Confederacy." A fluttering gas light which, according to local story, has burned continuously since the earliest weeks of the Civil War, it embodies "the spirit, the traditions, the way of life" that were the escutcheon of the Old South...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: The New Reconstruction: Moderatism and the South | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...entrance to the grounds there hangs an escutcheon on both sides of which is emblazoned: American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Acadamy [sic]. There are more than a hundred acceptable ways to spell the Bard's name, but the road leading into his theatre is not even macadamy...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Eighth Stratford Summer Season Opens With Adept Production Of "Richard II" | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

Perhaps Mr. Nehru would realize some day that Portugal was never a threat to India's security but just a blot on the family escutcheon. The true enemy lurks in the Himalayas, and perhaps closer still in the person of Mr. V. K. Menon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

India's newspapers grumbled at this "blot upon our escutcheon," and demanded "a clean and speedy sweep of this evil" from Indian soil. It may not be easy: most slave-owning NEFA tribesmen firmly believe that, no matter how wicked a man may be, his riches will accompany him from this life to the next. Thus, if he owns slaves in this world, he will have slaves to attend him in heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Blotted Escutcheon | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still run their publishing house as an independent fief under the Random suzerainty, and their books will retain the familiar Borzoi escutcheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borzoi at Random | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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