Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitate to imply that it opposes attacking the Royal Family. While such obscenities are not unknown, they are particularly rare. Britishers have had good cause to admire and look up to the present Royal House, not only as a great democratic and patriotic family, but as the living symbol that binds the world-flung empire so securely. Serious minded people have read an affront to the Royal Family and the empire into the cartoons of Max. It is undeniable that the artist stamps himself a plain boor for choosing such subjects, but, on the other hand, it is equally undeniable...
...number, the lights on the stage go out, and in the shadow Paderewski takes his place at the piano. He plays simply and intimately, as though for a dozen friends lounging in a parlor. His great maned head, seen vaguely in the dusk on the stage, seems an inspired symbol of the spirit of music, as it bends and sways in moody thought...
...still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during the middle ages...
...glorious relics of the weaver's art are series depicting the "Hunt for the Unicorn," symbol of chastity and immortality. Since 1450 the unicorn has adorned the Castle of Verteuil, home of the Counts of La Rochefoucauld...
...their business to win. The English, on the contrary, are more or less indifferent to the results; they are more concerned with the incidental pleasure and profit of competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking in a pleasant, casual way, provided more enjoyment for themselves and for the audience with less effort, and probably carried more conviction in their speeches...