Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death, the Christmas tree to France. During the Franco-Prussian war the Germans, celebrating Christmas in their fashion, spread a love for the custom all through the invaded country. It remained for the U.S. to develop the municipal Christmas tree, erected on the public square in many a city, token of the whole community's rejoicing...
...faint chorus of critics asked by what token the U. S. Navy Department was bearing the cost of the wholly unofficial Hoover trip. The Prince of Wales, it was pointed out, paid $25,000 out of his own pocket for his African tour, though he went as an official ambassador from Britain...
...inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany, social ineligibility, dripping-wetness...
...think," concluded Nominee Smith, "I have fairly made out a case here tonight that the Republican Party is seeking to continue its control of this Government under false pretenses. It is seeking to keep that control by misstating and misrepresenting the Democratic attitude, and misstating, by the same token, and misrepresenting its own attitude on a great many of the big questions...
...perplexing problems last fall seems to be reasonably well solved this year. To be without quarter-backs who have had experience and possess a thorough knowledge of the game is an almost insuperable disadvantage to any team, however good it may be in other departments; and by the same token to have a staff of capable quarterbacks is an asset which cannot be overestimated...