Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huskies and three biting geese, are blazoned the words "Dr. Brinkley," and at night "Dr. Brinkley" gleams in neon lights over the splashing fountains and the swimming pool. The green lawns and blue paths are studded with statues, and over the red front door sits, as a symbol, a small ivory stork...
...honorable, merciful peace. But from General Franco's headquarters in Burgos had come no promise of quarter, only a repeated demand for unconditional surrender-the white flag over Madrid. Then, last Tuesday morning, white flags began to flutter wanly over the ramparts of Madrid, the last symbol of Spanish resistance to the advance of Fascism...
Garner & friends do intend to block the President so far as possible on public spending, to check him if he reverses himself on recovery and business appeasement (see p. 11). Because of this John Garner has become to arch New Dealers a symbol of sabotage. They consider him a prairie politician whose archaic notions, plus popular veneration for long public service, accidentally make him the leader of reaction against six years of enlightened reform...
Although the issue is much deeper, the symbol of the Flemish-Walloon struggle for power is language. Seven years ago the country was divided into Walloon and Flemish-speaking districts, with French being official, however, in Eupen and Malmedy, the districts won from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. Last year the Army was divided into Flemish and Walloon regiments. Many Parliamentary debates are now held in Flemish...
...pictured him to be. Rumor has it that he built the Adlerhorst as a mausoleum. Other theories have it that here he intends to write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people. Perhaps more to the point is British Samuel...