Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion and unicorn of England which Revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s still stood atop the old State House...
...original lion and unicorn were pulled down and burned on July 18, 1776 on the occasion of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston. Those which TIME's reporter observed, and falsely assumed to be the originals, were, in reality, the second set of replacements put there by the more sentimental restorers of a later generation...
...Boston. Despite the Irish, the Italians, the automobile and the social "philosophy" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Boston was still Boston. Its church steeples still stood unchallenged by tall buildings. Beacon Hill's decorous cascade of red brick houses still defied time and modern architects. The lion and unicorn of England, which revolutionary mobs had neglected to pull down in the 1770s, still stood atop the old State House...
...Galesworthy once pointed out, the good biographer and the good critic are almost as rare as the unicorn because of a weakness of many to forego sentimental impulses. Further, he must steel himself against the susceptibilities of ancestor worship...
North of Mark Clark there was still Pisa, of the tower that "leans like a lily in the wind . . . strange as the horn of a unicorn," and north of Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...