Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this particular episode dates from the triumphant election of Calles as President−itself a symbol of two ideals: Socialism, Nationalism. Here, thought Joaquín Pérez, an ex-Roman Catholic priest, was the opportunity for a new church, a nationalistic church, but nonetheless an apostolic church. With the aid of the "Knights of Guadalupe" and apparently with the approval of some of President Calles' cabinet ministers, Joaquín Pérez founded the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico. He fixed his eyes on a church edifice in Mexico City, La Soledad. With the permission...
Flag: Candidate Jarres went on to say that the black, red and gold flag was the constituent flag of Germany, but it would not do to use it for partisan purposes. He and his followers demanded the right to honor the old Imperial flag?"the symbol of the glorious past...
...miles, this poor creature will not heed the new apostle of emancipation. Wild visions of embarrassment in engulfing soup and dismantling chicken wings, and horrible pictures of ice-coated whiskers tighten his grip on the instrument of degradation, as the fettered slaye renews each day the heardless symbol of forsaken manhood...
...that day, probably one of the most significant, at least to President Eliot, was the presentation which was made to him by the Alumni Association. Justice Sanford, on the behalf of that body, presented him with a copy of the "Alumni Directory", bound in Crimson leather, as a symbol of that "living force" of 43,000 men of Harvard of whom he was the leader. This presentation is equally significant today as another year has added its increase to the swelling list of graduates...
...Wild Duck is a symbol-a bird that, when wounded by the hunter, digs itself in the weeds and dies. The hunter of the play is a young idealist who comes to a middleclass, satisfied household and splinters their illusions. In the hope that he may lead them to a newer, finer life of honesty, he tells the husband that his wife has been another's mistress. The father shuns his child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor...