Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carry before you the conquering symbol of the swastika. We must be hard if we would conquer. A curse upon sympathy and mercy! Praised be that which makes us hard and cold, so that we may unmoved see the destruction of the evil sons of sound fathers...
...facilities ranging from a bathtub with gold faucets in Why Change Your Wife to the pool in Cleopatra which covers an acre and is used for background in one short shot. In The Sign of the Cross, Claudette Colbert went swimming in milk. The fabulous DeMille bathtub is a symbol not of cleanliness but of luxury...
...movie fan of more than eight years standing, let me enter my protest against the protesters. When the Catholic league condemns a picture such as Little Man, What Now? because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity...
...After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile in 60 seconds. For the next 16 years his round, good-humored face, invariably accented by a cigar which he smoked at the angle of a steering-gear shaft, was a symbol for fast driving in an era when auto-racing rivalled baseball as the U. S. national sport. By the time he retired from racing in 1918, Barney Oldfield had held every dirt track record for distances up to 50 miles...
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol. "I am suspicious," said Zepeda, "of the fact that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...