Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal...
Soon their pictures-religious, symbolic, realistically detailed-were the talk of London. Critics-in-the-street like Charles Dickens were indignantly disgusted, but Arch-Critic John Ruskin put his seal of approval on them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole...
...Ford proposed to do about it he kept strictly to himself all last week. He was on vacation in his 16-room, copper-roofed "cabin" (cost: $100,000) at the Huron Mountain Club in the wilds of northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down on him to ask about...
Within three years Governor Haskell defied his own constitution. That document provided that Guthrie was to be the State capital, but a popular movement favored Oklahoma City. In the dark hours of a June morning Governor Haskell ordered his Secretary of State to put the State seal in a wheezing little tin-can of an automobile and drive it to Oklahoma City. Meanwhile the Governor chartered a special train from Tulsa. At daybreak Haskell and the seal were in a hotel room together, and by his proclamation, Oklahoma City became the capital...
...abroad, with others from the federal and state governments. Forming in front of Phillips Brooks House the procession marched to the platform erected in front of University Hall, where former Governor J. D. Long '57, president of the Board of Overseers, handed over to President Lowell the College charter, seal, and keys, in accordance with the ceremony traditional in the inauguration of Harvard presidents for over 200 years...