Word: signet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are two branches of FAP. We will call them "Arts" and "Letters." However, you will all join the Signet and collaborate on small works of theater together. After graduating, you will go into "arts consulting...
...like life itself, this consistency is broken--and often. In the Square, we find the interruption that is modern Holyoke Center, as well as the glass front of what is now BankBoston. The Signet is of clapboard, University Hall of stone, and Widener's steps of granite. Grass defines the Yard and the Quad, and moss creeps through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further...
...systems are experimenting with a metal-toothed comb endorsed by the nonprofit National Pediculosis Association (www. headlice.org) Advice on insecticides and home remedies, as well as on the best methods for cleaning sheets, clothing and pillowcases, is reviewed in two new books, Wiping Out Head Lice by Nicholas Bakalar (Signet; $5.99) and The Lice-Buster Book: What to Do When Your Child Comes Home with Head Lice by Lennie Copeland (Warner Books...
...found on the racks in front of Gato Rojo and the Graduate School of Design. But the quintessential retro-bike, the Platonic ideal of retro-bikes, the mother ship herself--a model with both a wicker basket and a leather pouch--usually sits regally locked outside the Signet Society. She awaits your admiration...
Much of Felix's charm comes from its wonderfully self-conscious adherence to the classic conventions of mystery novels. A few key red herrings are made painfully obvious, as are several crucial clues. A large, distinctive signet ring is referred to in detail three or four times; only a very slow-witted reader could fail to mark its significance. In the car after interviewing Mirry about Gavin's death, one policeman turns to his partner and asks significantly, in time-honored detective novel tradition, "I wonder how she knew [the murder weapon] was a spanner," since the precise murder weapon...