Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange thing for a Vanderbilt. Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said, "The public? Bah! The public be damned . . . ", Vanderbilts have been press-shy. Relentless editors have made the phrase more than a sneer?made is a symbol, like the legend under a carriage crest, of Vanderbilt arrogance from the day of its Staten Island patroonship to the day when a Vanderbilt turnout swerved onto a crowded sidewalk that the fetlocks of its four strawberry roans might not be sullied in a puddle...
Blazing Fasces. As night fell, the Tiber was illuminated by searchlights and flares. High upon the Arch of Titus blazed an electric sign displaying the fasces, symbol of Fascismo. Sage U. S. parents showed their inquisitive offspring what the fasces are by displaying the "tails" side of a new U. S. dime...
...Japanese yen continued last week its recent upward movement (TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...
...what U. S. coin may the1 fasces, symbol of Fascismo, be seen impressed? (See ITALY...
...distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted words. Those readers who know without being told the relative importance of everything, may surely skim over the asterisk or the "famed" with less pique to their vanity than if a longer expression were used. Those who lack...