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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...
Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...