Word: emblemed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lunatic Narcissus" reveals a bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano...
Scripps took the State Tribune into his chain, adopted Magee's motto, "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way," made a lighthouse Scripps-Howard's emblem. Carl Magee, who was kept in charge, typified the crusading Scripps editor of the 19203, when the Scripps newspapers from coast to coast were dedicated to cleaning up corruption. Then one day Magee was knocked down and booted about a hotel lobby by a judge whom he had accused of corruption. Magee drew a revolver, boggled his aim, killed a boy who was trying to help...
...World's Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley...
...parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
...Lutheran Church blessing the Hymn of Hate played by the blasphemer with the Nazi emblem on his left arm at the church organ...