Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pallium, a diamond-shaped loop of lamb's wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...great governments are sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they may keep and what advantage they may gain? . . . When we get really civilized it will be much quieter. There will be no place for oratory. All noise is a symbol of imperfection, of partial accomplishment...
...County Lawyers' Association at the Hotel Astor. Questioned at the conclusion of the meeting about his references to Harvard Law School graduates, Justice Caffrey explained that his remarks were directed principally against junior members of those "big downtown firms", and that he only intended to use Harvard as a "symbol of arrogance and conceit...
...sometimes lacking in the paraphernalia of propaganda have come, as one partial result of the Bok prizes, to be recognized as factors of the greatest value in present-day exposition of commodities. The practical application of the theory of honest and effective advertising could be taken as an adequate symbol of the usefulness of the Harvard Business School in American industry...