Word: emblemmed
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...last years of republican Germany: a ban on the wearing of political uniforms. Austrian Nazis promptly rushed to second-hand clothing shops and bought up all the old silk hats in sight, on the assumption that there could be no law against the wearing of a Cylinder, emblem of bourgeois respectability. For a few happy hours Viennese Nazis flaunted battered toppers above their sport suits until green-coated police pounced on them...
...recognition of valiant work in recovering the Massachusetts Sacred Cod, Major Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers, has been advanced to the rank of Colonel in the Yard Police. Colonel Apted's single-handed recovery of the emblem, after days of slenthing through the perilous byways of Boston and Cambridge, came after both city and state police had been baffled at every turn...
...letter sent to Governor Ely last night the CRIMSON offered to furnish in place of the codfish, sacred emblem of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bennie the alligator, late of the Lampoon sanctum. The letter follows in part...
...view of the unfortunate disappearance of the codfish, sacred emblem of the State of Massachusetts, and in view of the probability that its present location is on this side of the Charles, the CRIMSON wishes to offer you Bennie the alligator, hoping in some degree to mets out poetic justice...
Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey...