Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long unknown fact became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for 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...
Where the fringes of Asia touch Europe the Black Sea pours, its waters down the Bosporus into the blue Mediterranean and divides the West from the East. Here is the Near East, with its diversified aromas, its medley of tongues and faiths, its rowdy bazaars, its quaint assortment of dress, its veiled women-a land where Allah is worshipped and Muhammad is his Prophet. Here, too, are five American Colleges fearlessly imparting learning to various people of various races, of various religions...
...your Original Subscribers-continuous since! Friends of mine have read your magazine in my home, have gone home and subscribed! Seven people of whom I know. Here are their names: Walter Gooch, Minneapolis; B. F. Bullard, Cambridge, Mass.; H. B. Van de Bogert, West Medford, Mass.; Walter F. Gushing, Medford, Mass.; Phillips Byefield, Newtonville, Mass.; Warren Scribuer, Minneapolis; M. R. Lauritzen, Minneapolis...
...absorbing, has permeated the English atmosphere as it has the American, but the colleges have not been affected. They may yet be, but it will be by a process opposite to the American. Over here, trade, came before the colleges and grew up with them, particularly in the West. In England the colleges and trade have been mutually exclusive, and business must force its way in. The contest between American and English's colleges is shown by the familiar example of extra-curriculum interests. In America one "works to make" something or other; in England we played at activities...
...presentation of the works of American composers in English, next season . . . The first opera will be the new American opera Alglagla . . . by composer Frank de Leone [Akron, Ohio]. . . . The company will comprise not less than 50 persons. . . . No money will be spared." To the East, to the West, said Signor Gallo, his opera company would go, tour 100 cities (not yet booked) east of the Rockies, perhaps go farther west. The project is being backed by the National Federation of Music Clubs...