Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salisbury, Lord High Steward of England; that among the nine pages supporting the King's robe were three young sons of World War heroes, inheritors of their titles: Earl Haig, Earl Jellicoe, Earl Kitchener; that because of an ancient squabble over precedent, the King's golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke...
...designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne car and probably planned to pay for it. G-men stood guard over it last week on the chance that he might show...
...York Stock Exchange the ticker symbol for Pierce Petroleum is PPX. One day last week PPX started to appear on the tape in blocks of 20,000 and 30,000 shares, and by the close was the most active issue on the Big Board with a total volume of 180,000 shares for the day. At $1.50 per share it was up 25?, a 20% rise in one session...
First, in a ceremony called Chigo, 300 children paraded to the Temple, carrying artificial lotus leaves as a symbol of purity. Among the moppets was one of Buddhism's 2,000 white California followers, a 14-year-old named Emma Balaric In the Temple, priests chanted, incense fumed as the statue was enthroned. That evening, with more chanting and with the congregation praying with 108-beaded Ojuzus, or prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took...
...side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment of the conversation slipped between the horns of the traffic jam. The officer and not the merchant was the questioner...