Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
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...Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus opens on a unison C: C stands for Combine. What more appropriate, then, than that the mighty C of the Overture should commence the first program of the combined New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society? By accident or design, Conductor Mengelberg drew a pretty symbol from symphony music, that veritable library of symbols. Some 24 musicians new to the Philharmonic have been placed under Mengelberg's guiding hand as a result of the merger last spring of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Symphony- (TIME, April 2). These two dozen transfers have...
...Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high?it is impressive. It speaks?every wound in the body of Christ speaks, appeals to judge and to advocate, and also pours out mercy upon the guilty. And while we cannot have that symbol in our courts in our own beloved land, at the same time every Catholic lawyer ought to have it in his heart. Yea, in his mind, in his conduct; and if such a high ideal of your profession is before you?oh what a minister of justice you will...