Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind and deaf social worker. She kept...
...East, has struck off 366 little devotional essays on American liberty for the "common man's" year (which seems always to be leap year). Author Douglas almost immediately slogs down in pompous, naive paragraphs about public libraries, workmen's compensation, irrigation. Notwithstanding a few well-phrased obiter dicta on civil rights, he simply does not have the Alma-knack...
...national interest and national survival." Such statements disturb me deeply. How is such a philosophy different from totalitarianism ? My ancestors came to this country as religious dissenters over 150 years ago to escape just such thinking. They wanted the freedom to obey their own consciences rather than the dicta of government...
...illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin vortere nondum...
...floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect it." Privately he admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference between a hexameter and a pentameter to save my scalp...