Word: emblem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes the best clue to the man-of-the-week's identity is a map (like the map of the middle Mediterranean which identified Lord Gort as Governor of Malta). Sometimes it is a flag or a national emblem. Sometimes it is a realistic scene (like the charging tanks behind Britain's General Montgomery) or an allegorical scene (like the Volga running red behind Field Marshal Bock, attacker of Stalingrad). When we put "Hangman" Heydrich on the cover, we planned to put just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies...
...would be absolutely fatal," added the London Economist just before .the Casablanca conference, "if, for their heraldic emblem, the United Nations chose an ostrich dormant on a heap of sand...
...Hail emblem of liberty...
...many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction: AUX ARMES, CITOYENS...
...hundred experts set up shop in the government hotel in Vichy. Men of art and literature went to work. The Marshal's profile, slogans and symbols appeared on stamps, china, ash trays, badges, hatbands, blotters, coins, bijoux and shaving mugs. A francisc, the Marshal's Frankish emblem, adorned all official documents. The Marshal's colors and cheerful slogans about healthy children appeared on milk bottles. Frenchmen wryly remembered World War I, when the Kaiser's picture had adorned the bottoms of chamber pots...