Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring circus rather than a government. Mr. Capone and his boys had their notoriety, but the spotlight was the mayor's whenever he wanted it. His character interpreted the momentary character of the city, and if the finances went to pieces in the meantime, he was still a sufficient symbol. When he finally lost, not to a stronger candidate so much as to a bigger machine, somebody had stolen the props from the structure of government, but the show had been a grand...
...great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...many an Englishman No. 5; become a sort of hopeful national symbol. When the bad news got out, in many English mind arose the suspicion that no small part of the more than ?55,000,000 now frozen in German loans had bet to build German superships, su them, run them at a loss to sweep shipping off the Atlantic Ocean...
...idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization's bold Grecian red cross and signature. The seal sales, however, hindered Red Cross collec tions for its own purposes. So the 1919 seal also carried the double-barred Lor raine cross, symbol of the National Tuberculosis Association. Since 1920 the seals have made no reference to the Red Cross. That has not eradicated confusion. There are no Red Cross Seals, never were any "White Cross Seals." There are only Christmas Seals...
...crop is harvested, and all the hay piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...