Word: emblemized
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...motor from Bucharest with three electioneering Opposition candidates. Since the candidates entertained no hopes of being allowed to hold or address a meeting, they carried cards to be thrown among their constituents. As almost none of these constituents could read, the cards were imprinted with a circle: the emblem of the United National Peasant Parties It was hoped that if a sufficient number of cards could be distributed, the peasant voters might recognize the circle-symbol when they saw it again on their ballots...
...Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
Nobody can deny his passionate love for his country, his daily struggles on the behalf of Italy in the face of every kind of danger and opposition with an energy which is often prodigious. At home and abroad Mussolini is considered a kind of national emblem working with a kind of mystical exaltation, which may be criticized in its details, but whose loftiness of spirit and the nobility of whose ends cannot be denied...
...celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, preceded by cross and candles and by his chaplain bearing the golden pastoral staff, emblem of his tenure. They proceeded between the lines of people up to the high altar, which blazed like a bonfire of lilies...
...Congress of foreign Germans met in Berlin. The meeting was opened by Foreign Minister Stresemann. The foreign Germans outnationalisted the nationalists at home. A plebiscite of all Germans throughout the world was demanded on the question of having the old monarchist flag replace the republican emblem. The confiscation of German property by the Allies was denounced. Germans everywhere were urged to propagandize against the "War-guilt...