Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...admirable review of Masefield's "Enslaved," it is "piercing, clear poetry." F. W. MacVeagh's "Poem" is a brilliant bit of repression, phrased with that quiet, haunting conciseness which E. A. Robinson has celebrated. Mr. McLane's "Anniversary" is tender dedication to Fadeless Love and Beauty. In "A Symbol" Mr. La Farge sails the old glamorous seas to Xanader, quite as his swashbuckling Pirate does in "Santa Spirita Harbor." Merle Colby magically weaves the burthen and repetand of "Days Falling," or in "The Singer" takes up the old ballad cry of the Poet and the Passerby with deft and unprovocative...
...Calvin Coolidge, he is in some respects the reincarnation of Lincoln. This man, cold, austere, hard with himself, hard with the enemies of public order, is the symbol of the law. Governor of Massachusetts, he clashed with the first attempt of Bolshevism which showed itself in the United States in the form of a strike in the public service in Boston. He broke it ot once by his marble firmness and his stern refusal to parley with the strikers...
...will blow up the railroad and I will blow up the city," he said to a newspaper correspondent, and added modestly, "I have no right to give way. For Flume counts upon me, for Italy counts upon me, for all the oppressed nations count upon me. I am a symbol of protest against the iniquity of the treaty of Versailles." As for the Allies taking Flume, he goes on to say, "They will do nothing. They will say nothing. Here at Flume we are stronger than the Allies...
...peace, namely, the cause of justice. If the League is not ready for this test, it is certainly not ready to become a super-state. The super-state can wait, but justice is a matter of today. The League of Nations in the Valley of the Saar is the symbol of a new order...