Word: emblemmed
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...also announced by the retiring board that in the future, emblems would be given to all the pilots in the club. The emblem is in the form of an eagle grasping a propeller in its claw, modeled upon a gold pendant...
...Buddhists babble their patient prayers. This first English temple to Buddha will make no effort to attract converts but will cater to present Buddhists now resident in London. The Buddhist priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange, and a combination of all five, for when Buddha discovered knowledge, under a Bo tree, he found himself surrounded by an aurora containing these bright and wonderful colors...
...swathed in the folds of Old Glories, posed the whole day in a magnificent tableau representing Justice and Liberty and Righteousness standing on Bigotry and Prejudice at the Crimson Building on free display to every passerby, nowhere else did a single man pause to meditate on his country's emblem. Did one man in Harvard College say to himself in a reverential whisper: "Red is for bravery, blue for truth, and white for chastity...
...Burk, when he was a boy in Philadelphia, was sensitive to the extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that...
...slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted city." Most pleasing are U. S. Pullman Porters, to whom, as "charming guardians," he dedicates his book, an occasionally ironical work of affection and romantic wonder...