Word: signets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge branch of the American Red Cross will take over the Signet Society's building on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets, the Signet Associates, Inc., graduate governing board of the Society, announced last night...
Simultaneously Red Cross officials stated that the yellow frame structure, which has been shuttered since the Signet suspended activities last May, would be occupied by their Home Service Department. Among its other duties Home Service acts as the Red Cross's information center. The Department is also responsible for the care of returning veterans and their families...
...past few months the increasing number of applicants for Red Cross aid has so overburdened this department's facilities that its members are setting up offices of their own. It is presumed that they will occupy their now quarters in the Signet building for the rest...
...Hardest hit" are the clubs and societies. They have extra space and war time Cambridge needs it. Besides Pudtling, Delphic and Speakers are giving up their rooms to officers, Signet Society is closed, and not a restaurant is still open. Elections are still going, but closure looks likely for the handful of "exclusive" organizations still running...
...some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...