Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctorate is a courtesy title conferred upon him in Berlin, where doctors are as common as colonels in Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
...impetuous Chrysler was wandering from roundhouse to roundhouse in the west at the turn of the century, always able to find a job, always quick to quit it when he had a row with the boss, purposeful K. T. Keller was a high-school boy in Mount Joy, Pa. Symbol of Walter Chrysler's youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination to go places...
What smart municipal management can do with a public utility Colorado Springs citizens heard when they gathered in the city auditorium one night this week to celebrate the mortgage burning. Its symbol was on the stage: shy, onetime sheriff, Mayor George G. Birdsall, who in 18 years on the City Council has drawn no salary, has gigged the city for not a single cent of expense money. Its mouthpiece was beside him: stocky, blue-eyed onetime Utility Engineer Earl Louis Mosley, who has been the city's light and gas plant manager since it was taken over from United...
...last June was unnecessary lay beneath all these protests. But the so-called "Committee to Save Education at Harvard" differs in one way from its forerunners. Enough time has passed since the first kicks were made over the firing of the professors for this act to jell into the symbol of a policy the committee fears. And it is on the basis of this concern that it now makes an appeal for student support...
Last week, before Congress met, up rose the ancient of the Senate, William Edgar Borah, to thwart the Presidential will. The knife-witted old (74) Lion of Idaho, symbol of romantic Lost Causes, took to the radio to tell the U. S. that repeal of the embargo meant taking sides in Europe, therefore intervention, therefore U. S. involvement...