Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poster trend has caught up many a well-known U.S. painter more accustomed to abstractions and highbrow symbolism, than to a simple realism. One such is Lawrence Beall Smith, whose poster of three children shadowed by a swastika (see cut) was released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing...
...plumped hard for its rehabilitation, raised $500,000 among U.S. citizens to build a new Heidelberg University building, which was named after him. Revisiting Germany in 1936, he observed a significant alteration in Schurman Hall: Nazis had removed the facade inscription "To the Eternal Spirit," substituted a gold swastika and "To the German Spirit...
...Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
With captured British and U.S. tanks, freshly swastika-daubed, sprinkled among his two German and one Italian armored divisions, Rommel crossed the border south of Sidi Omar, sent one prong northeast through Sidi Barràni, one prong east and one southeast, jabbing at the British covering forces ahead...
...soldiers, 15,000 Red tanks, 9,000 Red planes. But they had not destroyed the Red Army. German artillerymen photographed Leningrad through their telescopes. But they had not captured Leningrad, with its mastery of the Baltic, its way to Murmansk and the Murmansk supply route. The swastika flew within 115 miles of Moscow. But the Germans had not tak en the U.S.S.R.'s heart and capital, the vast railway system which rays out from Moscow and serves most of Russia...