Word: insigniaed
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...Finally the two young people were brought face to face and married. It took three more days of Buddhist rites behind the locked gates of the Red City to complete the ceremony. On the fourth day a battalion of mandarins led in musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...
...huge van pull up and stop in front of the Lowell House west gate. Three rather surly looking, individuals in coveralls disembarked, opened up the rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks of the departing porters...
...when once again the Blue Eagle loosed a claw full of lightning bolts. They singed a Passaic, N. J. beautician; scorched the owner of the New Deal Cafe in Cincinnati; crackled around five other restaurateurs from Evanston, 111. to Austin, Tex. All were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia. But NRA announced that of 3.000.000 Blue Eagles issued, only 48 had so far been recalled...
...turn out teams which could vie with similar aggregations from Yale. During this time of mighty traditions and turtle-neck sweaters, contests with other colleges were regarded chiefly as a means of preparing for the all-important tilt with the Bulldog; naturally, when the custom of awarding insignia to Varsity teams was adopted, the letters went only to those who had participated in the Yale game...
...awarding of athletic insignia on the basis of participation in a certain percentage of scheduled contests has been adopted throughout the country, but at Harvard the laws of inertia apply with their usual force. The authorities have repudiated the "collegiate" ideals, but their stand will remain far from convincing until they modernize their system for recognition of athletic accomplishment, now maintained only because it is tradition, or because the alumni like...