Word: parchments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...display were testimonials presented to the baritone: a gold medal from the management of the Metropolitan ; gold and silver loving cups from the Board of Directors, the other artists of the company and music lovers of New York; good wishes engraved on parchment from the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company; a gold match box and cigarette case from the Metropolitan Opera Club. Acting Mayor Hulbert presented a flag of the City of New York...
...protection is in our fraternity. Our armor is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is the ever increasing acquaintances and comradeship, and the compact is not of perishable parchment but of fair and honorable dealing which, God grant, shall continue for all time...
...Jacobs: " When we have disinterred the body, I shall leave in the vault for the enlightenment of future generations a written story, on parchment, of the circumstances of the transfer of his remains to America. . . . Over the tomb I shall place . . . an appropriate marble slab commemorating today's great event...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...struggle spent in crossing and recrossing the "Square" and the "Avenue" have reaped their reward. However the University may succeed in educating along other lines, it is certain that in the art of traffic-dodging, the training given is supreme. Anyone emerging from Cambridge alive, with or without parchment letters after his name, is innured to any vehicular terrors that Broadway or Fifth Avenue may have to offer...