Word: insignium
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...will be a house of distinction is its announcement that its public offerings will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies), is evidence that the publishers intend kindly towards fine writing, and the book's artistic execution intimates that the houses of Brentano, Knopf, Boni & Liveright, the Viking Press, A. & C. Boni, Houghton Mifflin and their peers are to have company in their...
...revision in the rules for wearing the "Y" was made at a recent meeting of the Yale Athletic Association. The university insignium will be awarded hereafter to winners of a fifth place in the intercollegiate meet. Men who run against Princeton will get a "Y" jersey...