Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With whistle tooting and the band playing "Aloha Oe," the Malolo glided from her pier, set her nose for Diamond Head. Into the harbor gay passengers tossed their leis (flower garlands), symbol of speedy return to Hawaii. But no leis were cast back by Lieut. Massie, his wife or mother...
...self-respecting Dominion thinks of doing away with the oath!" shouted Sir Gerald Hurst, again taking up the cudgels. "The oath is simply a recognition of the common duty of citizenship. It is simply a symbol of recognition of the big things of national life...
...most monarchist of Socialists. Cried the bill's sponsor, Laborite John McGovern: "Any M. P. holding Socialist opinions should be a Republican whether he admits it or not! I want to say here & now that as a Socialist I cannot take the Oath of Allegiance to a symbol I am out to destroy. It is outrageous to ask a member of this House to make it his first duty to make a public act of perjury...
...challenge of incalculable value. . . . Without these walls, a troubled and distracted world is seeking again the ways of Peace and orderly living. Within these walls fresh affirmation is given of the ways and means by which alone that Peace can be secured. . . . Here, we are seeking to understand through symbol, praise and sacrament, the paths that shall lead us ultimately to those serener heights where we shall know and comprehend God's larger plan for the peace and happiness of His children. . . . In no place other than here in the capital of the nation has such a Temple of Peace...
...warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates-Herbert Fleishhacker, Harry Chandler. Robert Dollar, Frederick Koster and William Crocker-as ever...