Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that famous member of the Schleswig-Holstein duet which was such a factor in European politics of yester-year. The theft of Schleswig, they say, is one of the primary objects of the Nazi regime, being desired not simply as an additional pasture for German cows, but as a symbol of Teuton expansion and the first of many successful conquests; the annexation of this province would be the aperitif for the much advertised feasts to come. And the Danes, farmers to the core and Social Democrats as well, are in no mood to ignore threats at their fertile lands...
...book is the volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe on a luxury liner, dies on the trip, and comes back a corpse on the same ship; the hero, a symbol of everything cheap in commercial civilization, is contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse...
...definite pretext, the customary speech, pamphlet, or pronouncement which "outrages decency and leaves us with no alternative." It is difficult to believe that a move so clumsy as this will onlist the support of British opinion. After all, the October Club was not much more than a symbol of conviction, and no university decree can affect the particular conviction upon which it was based. The only result will be that communists throughout the world have one more reason to enforce their contempt of capitalism as an intellectual adversary. The same congested mentalities which interfere with academic freedom are evidently...
...Germany must have Hindenburg. He is a symbol," declared the speaker in answer to a question concerning what influence the President exerted. "Germany has always had Hindenburgs. There were Hindenburgs in the Middle Ages; during the period of the Kaisers there were Hindenburgs. Now there are two--Hindenburg and Hitler...
...designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol of spinsterdom. Unmoved the Committee on House Decorations had the work done elsewhere...