Word: dictums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...title, there is little talk of poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true of the U.S. expatriate company of which the Steins were members, they learned a good deal about the pleasures of looking at things, inciuding things on canvas...
...dictum was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided between two great powers. Could Marshall depend on Eisenhower, his Air Forces and his Army to make it clear that the U.S. is "at all times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such...
...Germany would get only enough for themselves. Black marketeers moaned. Said one, hopefully: "Clever American people will find a way to beat the law." But by week's end it was the clever Russians who were showing most of the enterprise. Four days after Washington's dictum, millions of American-looking Russian cigarets were flooding Berlin at 2½ marks apiece-half the price of U.S. cigarets...
There are some public-relations experts who dispute Barnum's dictum that any publicity is good publicity. But few of these heretics work for ball clubs. The Lip gets in print oftener, and apparently without trying, than any other five baseball managers put together. Not until this year has anyone seriously questioned the sales value of this publicity...