Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman of Affairs is Iris March, Michael Aden's "white, so white" lady, now called Diana Merrick to fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows...
...this reason that we call to your attention the restricted meaning of the term in the hope that in the future you will endeavor to assist us in the work we are trying to do by giving full observance to this restricted meaning of our tradename and symbol...
...centuries hence a group of Americans, with the idea of destroying patriotism, began denying the fact that Geo. Washington had ever lived and started calling the twenty-second of February "Xington's Birthday," and in the celebrations used a black cat with seven tails as a symbol of the day what would you think? This compares well with what we so-called Christians are doing...
Throughout the week Irish Free State news-organs published hundreds of letters from irate citizens, most of whom wanted to know why neither St. Patrick nor the Shamrock appears on any of the new coins. The Committee on Coins, which chose the designs, is chairmanned by symbol-loving Poet William Butler Yeats, winner of the Nobel Prize. Shrewd Poet Yeats offered no explanation or defense of the coins, merely observing that the designs were made by Sculptor Percy Metcalfe of Yorkshire, England, who triumphed in competition with such Masters as Paul Manship and Ivan Mestrovic...
...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...