Word: emblemized
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...What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
...there is no greater mockery in this world today than the burning of the Cross, the emblem of faith, the emblem of salvation, the place upon which Christ himself made the great sacrifice for all of mankind, by these people who are spreading this propaganda while the Christ that they are supposed to adore, love and venerate, during all of his lifetime on earth taught the holy, sacred writ of brotherly love...
...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
...Black! The old emblem was symbolical of Afghanistan's oppression by foreign peoples. In the new flag the black stripe represents our past...
...nicely woodworked room is the view. It includes in the distance the Golden Gate; near to the eye, Stanford University grounds; and, chiefly, a great redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will...