Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sleazy Symbol...
...Ingrid, take you Frederick, my lawful husband, to love you through sorrow and pleasure and as a symbol I accept from you this ring...
Soaring over Moscow's Red Square one day last week, Maxim Gorki seemed a mighty symbol of Soviet power & progress. A small training plane, gnatlike by comparison, flew alongside it. Spellbound moujiks cheered as giant and gnat disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...
...such is justice in this world." During last year's London Conference, when Japanese delegates were trying to argue Japan up from the inferiority of 5-5-3 to 5-5-5, the Washington Embassy switched to an English brand of cigaret on each of which appears the symbol 5-5-5. Normally Saito smokes Luckies...