Word: shield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among the lily pads of his homeland...
...other Sikhs had tried to shield him, but now, shouting their defiance and their determination to die rather than move, they wiped away the blood streaming from his mouth. Hysterical Hindus rushed to him bearing cakes of ice to rub the contusions over his brown eyes. The Sikh gave me a bloody smile-and stood up for more...
Means, in his book, tells of close professional services for and with the Ohio Gang, the group of political campfollowers, not all from Ohio, who swarmed into Washington at Harding's heels. Its members were the President's friends and playmates. They used him to shield their deviltry. The Gang supposedly centred around Daugherty in the Department of Justice.? Its active manager was Jess Smith, Daugherty's friend and roommate, onetime Ohio dry-goods clerk, whose body was found in his hotel room after he had threatened to "quit the racket...
Choosing an astronomical symbol for the New Planet is also a problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might...
Anxious that the layout and typography of Vanity Fair should be as neoteric as the rest of the magazine, Editor Crownin-shield engaged the services of one Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Russo-Turkish designer (TIME, Sept...