Word: iconic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard, star player and current icon man of team football, has been confined to the sidelines this week as his team speeds preparations for the impending clash with Harvard. Yard's knee was bumped in the first half of the Yale game, and the injury was aggravated in the third quarter...
...farm boys from up-country who resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism.'' Everywhere they went the visage of Il Duce made jowls at them from stencils on walls, effigies in street parades. In the Church of San Marco in Florence Peter Blume noted an older icon-a cheap statue of Christ crowned with thorns and bedecked with gift trinkets...
...Russian icon painting, which remained in the stiff Byzantine tradition right to the outbreak of the World War, never reached the heights of similarly Byzantine painting in Siena, Italy, but did produce a few recognized masters in the 15th Century and during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Of these greatest icon painters the Hammer Galleries showed a full two dozen. All were emphatically for sale...
...amazed that you would permit such filth as that which appears under the caption "Ethiopian Icon" on p. 15 of the Jan. 6 issue of TIME. It would seem that an editor should feel under some obligation to observe the ordinary standards of decency in selecting material to be presented to his readers. Since your magazine apparently does not consider the moral welfare of its readers, we are compelled in the interests of more than 20,000 high school students in our city to remove the above mentioned number from our high school libraries...
Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...