Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There he treasures the collection of Japanese antiquities which is his pride. Above his snug lair floats a long streamer displaying a gigantic carp in black and white. "It is the Japanese symbol of strength and virility," chuckles M. Clemenceau to puzzled visitors...
...crooks as insignia. Later, in Christian times and before the advent of seats, the staffs were utilized in the cold old churches as supports to the weak-kneed. They became the special glory of early Christian art, and today are extremely handsome. Naturally mystics associate it with the Shepherd symbol. Once it was suggested that it had often been utilized to hook in the weak-willed and wandering. The Eastern Catholic churchman has a short pole, resembling and being used as an ordinary walking stick...
...leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune M. Poincaré looked down with a sneer only partially masked by his beard. He, ever fearless, did not sneer rashly. His compact figure stood symbol for the might of his "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, Aug. 2), uniting all parties but the extreme Left groups. M. Poincaré possessed, and none knew it better than he, powers which no French Premier has held since the election of 1924 returned a Chamber so evenly divided between Right...
...thankless task to discharge 100,000 superfluous Government employes, as rapacious a band of entrenched bureaucrats as were ever left over from an overturned monarchial regime. Naturally, Dr. Zimmermann has remained, since that heroic and salutary pruning action, one of the best hated men in Austria; a symbol to the unstable and irresponsible factions in the Austrian Parliament of all that is abhorrent to scheming politicians. That the good Doctor's staunch inflexible Dutch honesty and obstinacy have won out over so much intrigue smacks of a latter day miracle...
...caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord's Prayer...