Word: scrolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
...naturalistic and all as traditional as tea. On opening day, 25,000 people crushed into the National Gallery to see a regal, 8th century statue of the Buddhist saint Shuho-o, paintings of black-faced thunder gods, delicately colored trees, birds and flowers. A popular favorite: a dryly humorous Scroll of Animals (1100 A.D.) which shows monkeys, rabbits, and frogs playing like merry children. Next stages on the show's tour after a month in Washington: Manhattan, Seattle, Chicago, Boston...
This is given, the scroll read, "in recognition and appreciation of your sincere and capable efforts in bringing to the free world of Europe a vital of the American cultural scene...
...scroll also cited Armstrong's contributions to the jazz form in this country...
Purcell's greatest ordeal is yet to come. Last Saturday he left by plane for Stockholm, Sweden, where King Gustav Adolf will give him a medal, a scroll, and a monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the pretty well what to expect; it will be quite an affair. It's been so frantic around here I don't know if I'm excited , but I must admit I'll be glad to get away--after all you don't get the unless you go to Sweden...