Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters are there?evidently graphic signs intended to convey a meaning?but they are inscribed in such a fashion and distributed in such a way that every effort of the mind to grasp their significance is frustrated. . . . And this document?this singular document?stands as the prime symbol of value in the infinite transactions of a great commercial nation. It is worth its face in gold, but, my God! what a face...
...anyone who ever worked for a newspaper or wire service the number "30" has a special meaning. At the bottom of a page of editorial copy it indicates the end of the piece. Most frequently it is encountered in telegraph-reports. Years of use have made it a symbol to be woven into obituaries and floral offerings for deceased brethren of the Press. But whence came the term? Frank T. Owen, 47 years an employe of the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, canvassed his friends far & wide, compiled eight more or less plausible theories. Last week Editor & Publisher reported them...
...heraldic beast which distinguishes Eliot among the Houses is the elephant. The adjective "white" has no necessary application to this animal, although malicious suggestions have occasionally been heard. As a matter of fact, an elephant is the appropriate symbol, since Eliot is by far the largest of the Houses, accommodating nearly three hundred members, and its corporate motions are deliberate and elephantine...
...clanking, clattering Machine Age last week were leading citizens of Montreal. Solemnly they marched 100 strong to a conveniently open space near the Canadian National Railway tracks. There workmen, spitting on their hands, took shovels and dug swiftly a medium-sized hole. In it was buried a toy steamshovel, symbol of the Machine...
...Antwerp, fourth largest European port, the local Flemings organized last week their "Fleming Fascist Party." Platform : secession of Antwerp and Flanders from the Kingdom of Belgium and union with the Queendom of the Netherlands. Symbol of the Fleming Fascists (same as Adolf Hitler's): the Hakenkreuz or swastika...