Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the United States Line itinerary. Mr. Holmes said, "At Genoa, the main thing is the situation of the city itself. The drive on the upper road above the city looking down is the most notable feature of the place. The general impression is the thing here. Don't be lured to the palaces and churches, as I once was. They may be important to the Genoese, but don't waste any time on them...
...have achieved any degree of distinction in outside activities. Of the 89 who have achieved no such distinction some have shared the benefits of extra-curriculum work without winning laurels. But there are still others and they are too often taken by unthinking students as representative of the entire upper groups on the Rank List who have never entered the larger life of the University at all. They may be said to pursue a "Rank List" ideal, for they do nothing but study...
Much of the beauty of the chapel is due to the large stained window, the work of John LaFarge of New York, which occupies the center of the picture in Widener. The window is divided into six panels, three upper ones and three lower ones. The lower set of panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater...
...many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced away from the staff-and away from the enemy. Two years ago, the error was discovered...
...House of Lords Reform is now a slogan of the Conservative Party and undoubtedly this important subject will find a place on the order paper during Mr. Baldwin's administration. With Lord Oxford and Asquith now in the upper House, it is to be presumed that he will exercise his tremendous influence, as leader of the Liberal Party, in deciding how the House of Lords is to be reformed; and by inference his efforts will be directed to giving it the real power of which he formerly divested...