Word: emblemmed
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...months ago Bela Kun was arrested in Vienna, Austria (TIME, May 7), and last week his trial began. He wore a red tie, the virile emblem of his militant Communism. Reeking with wood violets, he disconcerted his judges, drowned the musty odors of the courtroom, and recalled that Wilhelm II, onetime Kaiser and All Highest, esteemed wood violet as a second best perfume to his favorite Kolnisches Wasser or Eau de Cologne...
...time to its being autobiography." Himself a Lancastrian, "Horn" grew up with all the folklore of a yarn-swapping race, and out of remembered bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp exchange of their arrows for rocks catapulted from the majestic ship of none other than "Julius Seaser...
...engaged in campus athletics and extra-curriculum activities. They had their own dramatic club, which produced The Clouds of Aristophanes and Electro, of Euripides. Then, fraternizing their classical strides, the students adopted as the official uniform of the Experimental College a blue blazer with pearl grey trimming and with emblem of sacred Athenian owl. Many a Wisconsin's farmer's son twitted them for wearing it. The relations of the faculty and students were close-teas and chats being mentioned with enthusiasm. Some of the boys must have looked into Author Ernest Hemingway, for here...
Mediaeval persons, who had not quite escaped the cheering madness which makes savages discover in every stone an emblem, in every wind a god, imagined the unicorn, a strange single antlered creature which no one had ever seen, as a symbol for purity. It was a rare beast as well as one unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill...
...scene was solemn, though not splendid. On a high platform in Convention Hall, Kansas City, sat 40 bishops. Above them could be seen the U. S. flag, draped with elaborate tassels; also the Christian flag, an emblem composed of a red cross on a blue square in a white field. The organ console and the pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch...