Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven the number of cars which are on the road, you have an average minimum "replacement" demand. The question then becomes: how many cars will the U. S. keep on the road? And that becomes a question of the American Standard of Living-the automobile being a simple statistical symbol...
...deserving or otherwise, has in this particular taken a decided turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have...
Unappeased Egypt continued to press for an apology. "The President's invitation, if such it was," said a spokesman for the Egyptian Minister, "was an insult to all who wear the fez which in Egypt is a national symbol...
While the Godless cheered, Red Soldiers shinnied up the steeple, tied ropes to it. A snorting tractor-symbol of the Five-Year Plan-was hitched to the ropes, snorted, backfired, got under way and pulled down not only Kolpana's spire but half the ancient church with it. Rushing into the ruins, Godless comrades seized and carried off the church's simple brass & copper fixtures, "needed to make Soviet airplanes...
...cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert S. Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) ; a radical spectator's impressions of the four Presidential campaign rallies...