Word: signets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yves Peron denounced the pact's advocates as "men who collaborated with the Nazis and who are now ready to collaborate with the Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood with a signet ring. Reinforcements rushed up and in no time a yelling, swaying free-for-all was on. Perspiring ushers in wing collars and tail coats barely managed to restore order...
Class Poet--John L. Ashbery of Dunster House and Sodus, New York; Advocate, Signet-Society...
...Orator--Antonio G. Haas of Winthrop House, and Mazatian, Mexico; Advocate President, Bowdoin Speech Prize-winner, Phi Beta Kappa, Signet Society. George K. Bouzoukle of Kirkland House and Nashua, New Hampshire; Orchestra, John Reed Society Executive...
Class Odist--George Bluestone of Kirkland House and New York City; Boylston Speech Prizewinner, Advocate, HDC, PBH. Richard A. Gregg of Dunster House and Segradale, New York; Advocate, Signet Society, contributor to Signature and the Lampoon...
...song score for the new musical gleams with the gilt-edged Porter signet. The author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...