Word: script
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square-shouldered Vandervelde signed next, without causing comment. But "A. Briand" was "fairly dashed into script." Mr. Baldwin signed "easily and casually." Sir Austen, however, created practically a sensation by "taking off the monocle, without which he is never seen . . . adjusting a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles and signing with a golden quill-pen presented to him by the British delegation to Locarno." Signor Scialoja signed with "an ordinary quill...
Down on 42nd Street, workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...
Closely scrutinized, each gleaming adornment was seen to be a golden watch key, graven with fine print and a florid script on the one side, with three stars, a pointing hand and the Greek P B K on the reverse...
...Golden Princess is neither the first nor the most important of Bret Harte's tales to be done into celluloid. It manages to preserve all the vices, none of the virtues, of the script. Some will enjoy it because it furnishes Betty Bronson with an opportunity to see how girlish she can make a pair of ordinary corduroy breeches; others will be irate because they misread "Bret" for "Bill...
Edward K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin will be enabled to study in Europe in order to complete a number of researches, including research on the history of the Script of St. Martin of Tours of the early middle ages...