Word: emblemmed
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...felt hat, colored glasses, to look like Lindblom, and that I shaved my mustache to facilitate the transformation. Thus attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure to Dr. Hjelf that it did not fly the red flag, emblem of Finland at that time. As is known, I did flee to Finland at the date in question, afterward proceeding to Sweden. As is also known, General von Hindenburg, my colleague, remained behind, though equally in danger, manfully cheering and bracing the army in the trying Armistice days...
...which had won him the national championship last June. It included the sentences: "The pages of this sacred document are fast crumbling away. . . .Baptized by our fathers' blood, consecrated by our mothers' tears, dedicated to immortality by a free people, may our Constitution ever stand as the emblem of 'Peace on earth, good will towards...
...auto, that emblem of our mechanical age, comes in now and again for its due share of blame for almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne...
...flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes. Two figures with wings recur regularly among the budding leaves; their costumes proclaim them to be Persian genii; among their motionless ranks a gnarled ornament appears in various forms that is not Persian at all but "Tschi," emblem of immortality, important symbol of Chinese mythology...
...Duke of this and the Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped me to my carriage . . . good-bye . . . good...