Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugural expenses from $100,000 to $449.87. Stands, fireworks court of honor, all the pomp and circumstance proper to the coronation of the Peepul's annointed, are waved aside. The only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every...
...Bishop Brown was charged with heresy last May on the basis of his book, Communism and Christianism, of which the central point is: The Brother Jesus of the New Testament, Catholic Creed and Protestant Confessions is not for me a historical personage, but only a symbol of all that is for the good of the world, even as the Uncle Sam of American literature is not a historical personage but only a symbol of all that is good for the U. S." Bishop Brown was tried by a court of eight bishops in Cleveland and proclaimed a heretic...
Those jubilant Americanists who a few months ago were noisily celebrating the triumph of Italian Fascism are strangely silent. The determined rejection of Muscovite nostrums by the ex-soldiery of Italy was followed by a similar movement in Germany, and hasty prognosticators saw the Ku Klux Klan as a symbol of an American stand against foreigners and foreign doctrines. It has been impossible to discover the person who applied the tack to the over-inflated balloon of bourgeois self-righteousness, but it evidently has been applied: perhaps the sturdy citizen himself was not among the last to grasp the ridiculous...
Later, in the chapel of the Pieta, Pius XI addressed the religious brotherhoods of Rome, entrusting to them the care of the Holy Door and explaining its significance as the symbol of the eternal door of the City of God. Said he: "We hope the words 'Glory to God and on earth, peace, good will toward men,' will come true. May this Holy Year bring peace to the mind and peace to the heart and peace to the will." Then he blessed his listeners and distributed among them jubilee med; showing the dome of St. Peter...
...Paper Cap was stuck on the head of a fastidious Matthew Park by a singularly beautiful woman whom, until the moment when she so clownishly crowned him, he had taken for a civilized person. It was a cap of disenchantment. It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced. Months later, the beautiful woman forced herself upon him where he, scornful recluse, sojourned on his yacht, spied the symbol pinned to his cabin wall, called him "baffling?but a dear" for keeping it, kissed him. He thereupon ceased...