Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great is the esteem expressed when musicians present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...
...petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary to establish a complete case in order to set up a symbol. To Princeton, Harvard became the archtype or token of snobbery and superciliousness. And out of this idea came great benefits to young men who were the orange and the black...
...Guest at the White House all week was Hubert Work M. D., being eased out of the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. His visit was interpreted as a parting token of the President's esteem. That his resignation, announced as "due to ill health," left him under no misapprehension, he showed by saying...
...just resumed dividends, after a lapse of two years. Producing companies bear the brunt of the losses in times of overproduction. When they begin to prosper the industry is looking up. The price trend for gasoline during the summer months has been slightly higher, again a token contrary to overproduction, although it must be discounted because of seasonal demand. Finally there may be some additional demand for oil in China if that country goes to war with Russia, which has been supplying part of its demand for kerosene...
...helped him buy a postage stamp. C. Walter Randall, Manhattan attorney, last week called attention to Section 293 of the U. S. Code, passed by Congress the snowy day President Taft was inaugurated, saying: "No person shall make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a less sum than $1, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States; and every person so offending shall be fined not more than $500, imprisoned not more than six months or both...