Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knighthood. A Catholic quietly labors for the welfare of his neighbors. The parish priest notes; the monsignor notes; the bishop notes; the archbishop notes; the Pope notes-and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted-Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory...
...thrown among their constituents. As almost none of these constituents could read, the cards were imprinted with a circle: the emblem of the United National Peasant Parties It was hoped that if a sufficient number of cards could be distributed, the peasant voters might recognize the circle-symbol when they saw it again on their ballots...
...Mayas, like the Greeks, made much use of color. Sometimes a whole building would be painted one tint. Mural paintings are not uncommon, and from them alone has been learned much of what we know about the ancients. The red hand, a very common symbol, has been something of a puzzle. The suggestion has been made that it signifies strength, power, and mastery, and that it is the sign of some secret brotherhood...
...here is another gift, which please deliver to the little Crown Prince [Peter of Jugoslavia]. It is an American baseball, a symbol of everything which spells joy and happiness to the heart of the American boy. It will remind the Crown Prince that little American boys love him and love the boys of Jugoslavia...
SIMONETTA PERKINS?L. P. Hartley?Putnam ($2). Demonstrating what might conceivably befall a high-caste Boston nymph when exposed to the languorous breath of Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself Simonetta Perkins to absorb the shock, bids him?late one night?take her up an obscure canal, hesitates, is lost, countermands the order. Author Hartley admires Author Max Beerbohm...