Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful rug woven by the children in the orphanage in the Lebanons has been received. This, their expression of gratitude for what we have been able to do in this country for their aid, is ac- cepted by me as a token of their goodwill to the people of the United States. The rug has a place of honor in the White House, where it will be a daily symbol of good-will on earth...
...Camera warmed to its work with the presentation to Il Benito, amid stentorian cheers, of a sheaf of laurel-a token of the Deputies' relief at his escape from assassination (TIME...
...have torn up their agreements with the United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token he has mixed 'the devil's stew for the forthcoming Congress to sup." From Hazelton, Pa., it was reported that rats in schoolhouses were annoying women and girls. The explanation: when mules are taken from the mines, rats are deprived of grain and consequently come to the surface...
Scarlet, the token of Theology and Divinity, is the Church's hue for ardent love and zeal...
...part is to forswear, at Lincoln's behest, a well beloved fianceé, in the interest of political lubrication. At this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small brother and which he concealed in his pocket during the speech — a stiff little fish. With rare sense, the author leaves the lost speech lost...