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Each will in the dinning room features colorful photographs, carefully arranged and tastefully framed among them are shots of Widener Library, Memorial Church, Lowell House, and Harvard Stadium. Two small shelves lined with law journals stand beside a large "Veritas" insignium engraved in wood. A Harvard Club perhaps? No, a Burger King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Burger King Serves Up Burgers, Frappes a la Veritas | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

...beard, dark brown, soft and short, was originally a protection against Polar cold in the Arctic and Antarctic. Now the beard is an insignium of popular science. As a correspondent-explorer for William Randolph Hearst, Sir Hubert is distinguished in appearance as well as achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Polliwog | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Most of the testimony was trivial at first-detailed disputes over such campaign cost items as matches, banners, eye shades, cigars, meals, band music, entertainment of Wisconsin news editors at the Kohler plant. Judge Gustav Gehrz grew impatient when the State tried to make a 30? insignium labeled "KOHLER FOR GOVERNOR" into a valuable "tire cover," ruled it was no such thing. Again and again curious heads turned to the courtroom door, hoping to see Philip LaFollette march in, face his rival, give a touch of political drama to the scene. But the curious were disappointed. Shrewd, Brother Phil kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette v. Kohler | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Socialism! | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...outstanding property of the Smith trip was a brown derby hat. That is the Smith insignium. Asheville haberdashers caught the idea quickly and their windows were soon filled with what one correspondent referred to as "copper war helmets." In Manhattan, seeking to find out where the original Brown Derby was bought, newsgatherers found no less than three hatters claiming the honor-Knox, Young and Truly Warner. The Knox company said that Candidate Smith purchased four or five of its hats per annum. All hatters look forward to a boom year, not even counting election bets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Smith's Week | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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