Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure which shall not perish...
While fat, young Vittorio Mussolini was getting a Bronx bird in Hollywood last month (TIME, Oct. 18) Rome was turning Hollywood Director Rouben Mamoulian into a lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts...
...bird, an ace strategist and an untiring worker, he is a master technician with perfect control of the mechanisms that he operates. To the citizen who does not want his picture in print, the news photographer is Public Pain in the Neck No. 1; to others he is the symbol of opportunity. His body belongs to the city editor, he has no soul, and his life is lived between the pulmotor and Paradise. But without him all news would be colorless and the newspaper just a broad expanse of funereal type...
...save time and space 1,400 Associated Press newspapers use a logotype, AP, to label AP stories. For nearly 40 years AP has been trying to make its symbol mean as much on newsstories as "sterling" means on silver. Unnoticed though it is by hurried readers, the little logotype can even by its absence make news...
...Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...