Word: volante
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...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
...embroiled in bastardy, murder, poverty, affluence, licentiousness and general skulduggery, but as he squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion and pleads for that of the reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed him. In Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English...
...exciting scene depicted on this page . . . is the conclusion of the race between the club boats Huron and Volant which took place on the 16th ult in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The locality is faithfully represented. The houses in the background of the picture are the fine ones recently built on Western avenue; in front and to the left are Braman's baths and boat houses. From the baths a line was drawn to the judge's boat to form a starting point for the race. The Volant is represented as having crossed it, the Huron...
...foreground is the judges' boat; beyond the Volant is one of the boats of the Union Boat Club. And the gentleman pullnig the extremely narrow one is Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet who is very partial to this manly exercise for which so city in the world has such facilities as Boston, the fine expanse of the Charles River being unimpeded by navigation and daugors incident to the passage of steamers...