Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth game, since we play Yale in New Haven this year a good way to cerebrate would be dome quite simply by stringing a line of red flags across between the stacks. Everybody could see it coming back from the Stadium, and I think it would be an excellent symbol of the ascendancy of Harvard we all hope to see this fall...
...Green, lastly, is the symbol of our germinating wealth and hope for the future...
...Money Lender. When Major Luttrell died he was known to have left a fortune but none knew how he, once so impecunious he had to leave the Army, had amassed ?200,000 (convenient symbol for $1,000,000). When the will was read, the startling disclosure came. He had been a moneylender. Anonymously, it is true, but a moneylender nonetheless. As if that were not surprise enough, the will-reading ceremony brought out a twist in the Major's character, which threatened to disrupt all. A condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune...
...Presidency: (this was the conclusion) "is more than an administrative office. It must be the symbol of American ideals. The high and the lowly must be seen with the same eyes, met in the same spirit. It must be the instrument by which national conscience is livened and it must under the guidance of the Almighty interpret and follow that conscience...
...this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague way, he was to be the symbol of sexual infidelity, of degrading pleasures which the virtuous woman feared more than beer. He was to be thoroughly confused with New York, and somehow all the vice (sex) of Broadway and the Bowery was to be imputed...