Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Sir Eric: "We now have a council chamber that is at once a monument to what has been accomplished and a symbol of future harmony. ... In the bad old days in industry, before the round-the-table idea had taken root, operatives knew nothing and cared less about the difficulties of management. ... It is not too much to say that the increasing cooperation of our operatives has been a most important factor in steering this organization into smoother financial waters...
...Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly, it was a face easily recognized and remembered as a symbol of dependability, of integrity...
Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso...
...injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human to him, but a symbol of the glorious militancy of France. He has become full of words, insincere, prosperous, successful. The ambition which was dormant while his son was alive, has caught fire and he is climbing to prominence upon his son's coffin...
...when his brother, abdicating, nominated him as his successor, a choice that the College of Ulemas (wise men, meaning the Mohammedan religious heirarchy) seconded. But Mulai Yusef had had no thoughts of ruling Morocco and thus without any training orexperience he found himself walking under the Shereefian umbrella, the symbol of power in Morocco (equivalent to the sceptre in occidental countries...