Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoroughly they investigated, bitterly they wrote last week-the editors of UnitÀ Cattolica, daily newspaper of Florence, Italy: "We saw one day in the streets of Florence a woman of the aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
...articles about him have been excellent, not hysterical, and it is a treat to read such interpretations of a character, so fine and noble, as this young American, who has forever endeared himself to the youth of our land, and to the mothers, who hail him as a perfect symbol of all that is wholesome and true. Square yourselves with the countless readers of TIME, and give us a picture of this world famous youth...
What is this Companionate Marriage idea which has made Judge Lindsey almost a symbol of evil in many U. S. minds? Briefly, it is based on the fact that some marriages are entered into with the expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take...
...government. He is usually pictured with a red neck which hangs in folds over his collar. Across his paunchy stomach runs a heavy gold watch-chain. From his mouth protrudes a long, black stogy. By night he counts poker chips; by day he miscounts ballots. He has become the symbol of the U. S. civic misrule which caused the late James Bryce to say that municipal government has been the outstanding failure in the U. S. political system...
...would have to put it something like this: "The typewriter is mightier than poison gas." The facts which this illustrates are only too true. The art of writing is fast becoming a lost art in our modern civilization; while the days when the sword was regarded as the symbol of battle have even more completely disappeared...