Word: scrolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death, and the two lads, seeing that it was no laughing matter, took counsel together. They thought of a way to make their father come home. One night when there was no moon they stole out of the house and made for the railroad track, each hiding a scroll of paper under the butterfly filigree of his kimono. An express train approached. The lads cast themselves down before it. Policemen, finding letters in the bloody tatters that covered their bodies, informed Shoemaker Tokuriki that it was now his duty to live with their mother. (Whether or not he complied, despatches...
...present the background of the space formed by the eaves of Holden Chapel are being painted this same light blue, the elaborate scroll being left white. The same combination of colors will also be carried out on the lintel of the entrance to the chapel. Here again the background will be blue while the bas-relief oxheads will be painted in the contrasting white...
...immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment in his hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would have consulted the Delphio oracle to learn the meaning of the strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write...
...think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership--in short, a shingle--might be used with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope that we should receive an assurance of kindred feeling from a certain society in that...
...true. May this Holy Year bring peace to the mind and peace to the heart and peace to the will." Then he blessed his listeners and distributed among them jubilee med; showing the dome of St. Peter's and an image of himself, one hand gi ping the scroll of his Jubilee bull, other uplifted as a sign of benediction...