Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation for a cataract...
...York society girl most in demand this season as a model is Miss Mary Taylor whose sleek figure and expression of aristocratic disdain are just what modistes and manufacturers desire as a symbol of the superiority of their wares. Twenty years old, a debutante of 1932, known as "Mimsy" to her friends, Miss Taylor is the daughter of Bertrand L. Taylor and the present Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo. She is careful to avoid posing for any of the more intimate feminine accessories, but she is always available for such publications as Vogue, such smart shops as Jay Thorpe and Saks...
...splendid brilliance of the reign of Christ the King. . . . We have chosen our legate who in his most ample dignity and power represents our person in the Congress. . . ." Then the Cardinal-Legate spoke mystically: "The white eucharistic forms of innumerable grains of wheat compenetrated in indissoluble union are the symbol of what, according to Jesus Christ, men should be." His hearers shouted: "Long live Jesus Christ, the King of Peace!" On a third bright spring morning 110,000 children, the girls in white frocks and veils, the boys in white dusters, marched down four wide avenues to the great cross...
Belle of the Nineties (Paramount). When almost overnight Mae West became an immensely profitable symbol of screen naughtiness by padding her hips and uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors...
...outlets of this sea," he shouted, "are in the hands of others.* If Italy does not wish to become a recluse in the Mediterranean she must ever increase her strength. . . . Taranto shall stand as a symbol to keep the Mediterranean open. . . . Our people must be ready for any event. If we should be obliged to take the field, I shall be at your head...