Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult...
Dressed up in his unicorn, dear little chap...
...galleries of superb sculpture and tapestries. First visitors last week could trace, in an hour's attentive ramble, the progress of medieval art from the devout symbolism of the 11th Century to the tender realism of the 15th. Biggest & best show piece: the unsurpassed Flemish tapestries of the Unicorn Hunt which Collector Rockefeller bought in 1923 for a reported...
...London, Heralds' College announced that new Earl Baldwin, formerly Prime Minister had chosen for his coat of arms the Latin motto "With the help of my God I leap over the wall," had further chosen as the supporters of his arms not the lion & unicorn but two white owls, symbolic of wisdom...
...institution which is almost twice as old as the Republic it has so ably served, and whose history it embraces and reflects. Harvard had been open a hundred years when incipient young rebels like John and Samuel Adams and James Otis placidly penned their exercises beneath the Lion & Unicorn of the Georges. Four years before the British burned the U. S. Capitol, John Kirkland began his brilliant presidency of Harvard (1810-28) which gave the University its Law and Divinity schools, turned out such ornaments of U. S. Literature as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hickling Prescott, George Bancroft. At their...