Word: shields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying the President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine...
...water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead of teeth, with which it hungrily crushes hardshell crabs.* Potent and numerous are Nassau's habitues. They include: Publisher Nelson Doubleday, Publisher Conde Nast and his editor of Vanity Fair, Frank Crownin-shield. Bankers Thomas W. Lamont and Seward Prosser, Lady Diana Manners. Knowlton L. Ames Jr. of Chicago is not only a visitor but co-owner of the quaint Nassau Guardian, one of the world's few newspapers to be composed on inverted tombstones from old graveyards. Publisher Ames...
...Freshman inter-dormitory football series will begin on October 6, and games will be played on October 8 and 10. The winning team will score five points for its dormitory towards the shield that is being competed for by the Freshman Halls each year. The second team in the series will receive three points, the third two and the fourth one. Dean Chauncy is in charge of these teams and is assisted by Coaches Shaw and Maurice...
...Manlius, previously called St. John's School, Manlius, N. Y.]. "Bill" as he was to us, or "The General" was a man's man, and he surely lived to fulfill the phrase "Manners Maketh Man" and the three virtues, Honor, Love and Duty with which our school shield is emblazoned...
Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read...