Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient puffiness that sits upon the living one, gazes mildly...
...reformer." Both as a reformer and as a millionaire he should prove useful to Mr. LaFollette. Immediately after the selection, this Committee met. It decided that the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket would be known as "Progressive." It rejected the Bull Moose as a Party symbol. It decided to avoid entirely the use of animals. Instead, it chose the Liberty Bell as a Party symbol. It then set about organization. The men whom it chose were the best professionals in the field. A drive was set up for a campaign fund of some $3,000,000-. Henry L. Rosenfelt, formerly a director...
...most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs a lighthouse. The mountains close at hand furnish the marble. The primary notion was that of a memorial to the poet but it is now coupled with that of a symbol of the friendship between the two nations, of old date in spite of passing differences, and we have not forgotten that we had England's sympathy during our time of struggle." There has been a U. S. offer to defray all expenses but both the English and Italian committees...
...Tokyo, masses assembled to give ear to anti-American ardor. One of the largest meetings was held at the sacred Meiji shrine (religious symbol of modern Japan erected in memory of the present era which began in 1867, when the terrible Shoguns who had for years been de facto sovereigns of Japan were ousted). "Hate" societies plastered the city with placards which read...
Bishop Brown (formerly of Arkansas, now retired) was charged with heresy on the basis of his book, Communism and Christianism, of which the central point is: "The Brother Jesus of the New Testament, Catholic Creed and Protestant Confessions is not for me a historical personage, but only a symbol of all that is for the good of the world, even as the Uncle Sam of American literature is not a historical personage but only a symbol of all that is good for the U. S." The Bishop's lawyer fought a brave battle, asserting every conceivable technicality. Ultimately...