Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Archbishop Soderblom is the youngest man ever chosen archbishop in his native country. The crosier, the carved golden cross which he carried in Appleton Chapel on Sunday is the symbol of his office. The primate is the sixty-fifth archbishop of Upsala to have born this crosier, which has been handed down to each succeeding archbishop since...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Like "Babbitt" and "Main Street," " Merton " has imbedded itself in the American vocabulary. He is the satiric symbol for youth with the celluloid complex...
...passing of this traditional symbol of Ancient Rome is regarded as an augury of misfortune to the Eternal City. Since time immemorial it has been the custom to keep a wolf on the steps of the Capitol, as well as three eagles, to symbolize the Romulus and Remus legend...
...read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should like...
...There was once an American in Fans who wanted to see a good show. Not the Comedie Francaise, you understand, but one of those typically Parisian shows that has made Montmartre a symbol for sinful frivolity in New York, Junction City and Pleasantville. So he told the hotel porter and the porter got him a ticket for a real good show at a theatre possibly named the Vaudeville. "Ah," thought the American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist...