Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Symbol!" In menacing tones General Göring then read out three new decree laws. The first ended the clumsy arrangement under which the German tricolor and the Nazi swastika have been flown together as national flags. Henceforth Germany's sole flag is the swastika. "It is the anti-Jewish symbol of the world!" thundered General Göring amid deafening cheers. "A soldier from the front lines, Adolf Hitler, pulled us out of the dirt and brought us back to honor. . . . The swastika has become for us a holy symbol!" This, Germans considered, completely answered a Jewish judge in Manhattan...
...mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop John Joseph Mitty arose, blessed his flock...
...blood red globe, symbol of World Revolution, hung before the Seventh World Communist Party Congress in Moscow last week, flanked by huge posters showing Karl Marx's hairy halo, Friedrich Engels' waterfall mustache, the bald cranium and spiked beard of Lenin and Joseph Stalin's well-oiled, glistening locks. For a month 600 Reds of all nations have been non-paying guests in Moscow, candidly preparing Revolution in all countries despite the Soviet State's pledge to President Roosevelt that it "would not permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group...
...whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight and Bombshell, Jean Harlow has paradoxically made herself a symbol for the kind of allure which her appearance naturally suggests by ridiculing it. She was blithely hailed as a femme fatale until the suicide of her second husband, Paul Bern, made this designation seem shockingly impolite. Since then, fan magazines have shifted their viewpoint and painted "the real Jean Harlow...
...dome which tarnishes above the defunct New York World's offices in Park Row no longer has any significance, and the owls whose illuminated eyes once ogled Herald Square from the old Herald Building only appear now at "alumni" dinners. But across the continent last week the hoary symbol of another great newspaper settled down on its third perch atop a brand new building. For the great bronze eagle of the 54-year-old Los Angeles Times is the mascot of a publishing property still very much alive...