Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign of the cross in Holy Water upon the brow of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, infant daughter of the Duke of York, only granddaughter of George V, Rex et Imperator. Above her royal head the Archbishop intoned the significance of the moist cross which he had just made "in token that hereafter she shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified...
...Welsh trouble is on this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
...Paris, in the Quartier Latin, one Juliana Hastre, young Argentine singer, was gowning for dinner when a messenger delivered to her an egg of prehistoric proportions, an Easter token from her friend Mlle. Van Hong Lu in India. Taking the present with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately...
During the meeting W. R. Chase '26 in behalf of the clubs presented D. C. Gates '26 with a gold watch as a token of his leadership as president which has brought the Clubs to their present high standard of excellence...
...things increase and multiply, the University of California announced that- not counting correspondence students, extension workers or any students doing work that does not count towards a degree, but counting only full-time students-it had 16,282 students enrolled for the current semester and was by that token "largest school of its kind in the U. S." Columbia University was reported second largest with 11,836 full-timers; the University of Illinois was third with 11,212. (Last year, Columbia reported a grand total of 32,769 students of all kinds; was the largest school of its kind...