Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stories. Wm. Leeds, the peddler in Last Night, is not merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles...
Membership. The companies that will comprise the combination are: "Ig," which is the trade symbol of the famed Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie-the largest corporation in Germany and that country's dye trust...
...Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things in the Cathedral. It surely is a very great thing to have in the greatest house of worship in our land that magnificent and conspicuous symbol of the relationship of clean and wholesome sport in all its forms to life and to religion." Sports represented in the Sportsmen...
...crisp, clear air. Dartmouth in all her autumn beauty reveals herself. The age old hills in the background sparkle in the early morning sunshine. The trees with leaves in every color of the rainbow give her a festive dress. the whitewashed front of "Dartmouth Row" stands as a symbol of the old Dartmouth. The new library, the new Biology building and the new dormitory, half-finished, bear tangible evidence of the growth of the new Dartmouth...