Word: credo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn what. The bargain show was just another way for the gallery's businessman-founder, Hugh Stix, 48, a former Harvard Fine Arts honor graduate and now a full-time wholesale grocer, to underline his credo: "Somebody has to like art for what it is, not just for the artist's name...
...Cult: 'I believe (credo) that you can worship God better on the golf course than you can in church ..." Members of the cult demonstrate their devotion to the creed by making their Stations of the Course (18 in number) each Sunday morning...
...Army Chief of Staff, and president (1931-53) of The Citadel, a military college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history...
...talk." He finished his correspondence by 9 o'clock. Then, one by one through his brown Fiberglas door curtain came the top officers of Pride's Seventh Fleet for a conference. Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured up to his half-joking credo: "If you find the right man for the right job, you don't have to work nearly so hard yourself."After the conference, followed by a business lunch, Pride took a 30-minute nap, then returned to his work in the same calm, unhurried way. He ended...
This feeling about style, perhaps more than anything else, has always been Hemingway's credo-whether it concerned the right way to kill a bull, track a wildebeest, serve Valpolicella or blow up a bridge. And it was usually the redeeming feature and ultimate triumph of his characters: they might die, but they died with style. They left behind them some aura of virtue, some defiant statement of this-is-the-way-it-should-be-done that amounted to a victory of sorts...