Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy over the value of the Phi Beta Kappa key as a symbol of something more than excellent scholarship appears interminable. Several weeks ago in an article widely commented upon by the press. Mr. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co--expressed his opinion on the subject. He found many move wearers of the key, proportionately, occupying responsible business positions that their less scholastic classmates. This view seemed a convincing refutation of a rather widely held opinion among business men that these who had won high standing in college were not apt to be particularly successful in business...
...What is a sea elephant? President Coolidge knew all about the land elephant, which is the symbol of his political party: the largest of land animals, herbivorous, mammalian, ungulate, with a flexible proboscis, exaggerated incisors (tusks), rudimentary tail. But what is a sea elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year...
...said: "When the American eagle has gained its ascendancy, as your great country has, its talons are tucked up underneath its body and not stretched out like a duck's feet. It is the symbol of might and dignity and yet the designer has given the grand old bird the feet of a duck...
Appearing on stock market ticker tapes last week, was a new symbol: KVL. It represented the stock of the Kelvinator Corp., a subsidiary of the Electric Refrigeration...
...years that came after the hectic turn of the century, Packards became gradually a familiar symbol, a symbol, in the strictest sense, of progress. The first ones opened down the back like the puffy blouses worn by the women who rode in them. Then the later Packards, with the lined hood that still distinguishes them, appeared; gigantic limousines, touring cars like towers, and snorting red racers. The windshields were rimmed with brass; the men who sat bolt upright behind them wore alpaca dustcoats...