Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale mascot is a bulldog. Thereby hangs a tail...
...Oldsters could scarcely believe the newspapers and the great electric sign which flashed outside the theatre. But they bought tickets just the same, and went and wept and cheered. For Fritzi Scheff, now 50, still gives the illusion of sprightly youth, still plays the snare drums as the mascot of the troops, still sings bewitchingly "Kiss Me Again." Moist-eyed oldsters marveled and reminisced...
Lady Drummond Hay, in knickers and leather flying coat, "clambered squirrel-like" (Von Wiegand description) along the girders of the ship's hull. She carried a Boston Bull pup, who was cold and, she decided, lonesome. Sir Hubert Wilkins clambered with her. Her cloth cat mascot remained in her cabin...
...ended the six months' career of Sergey McTavish as mascot of the Seventh Battalion of Red Army Riflemen...
...serious-minded music student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...