Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Eugenio Pacelli's grandfathers were Vatican functionaries. His father was dean of the Vatican law corps. Young Pacelli practically grew up in church. As a boy he played in the piazza of Rome's Santa Maria della Pace, from whose wall he took his personal motto: Opus justitiae pax (The work of justice is peace...
Columnist Luce had written mostly about Congress, The column's title: Here the Gavel Fell. Its motto: "Don't undersell your Congress." Her weekly reports ran 1,200 to 1,600 words, gave soldiers a brilliantly readable summary of the political week. When she wrote, early in May, that home-front journalists were predicting that WPBoss Donald Nelson might be on the way out, she added a gag making the rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When...
...last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian soldiers; that Russian bureaucracy is detached enough to allow Voyetekhov a story at its expense. Another good story, more or less at his own expense...
...Abbott-Costello opus would take the sting out of 20 other "A" pictures. Like Laurel and Hardy, Wheeler and Woolsey, A. and C. don't know when to stop. Right now they're riding the original wave of popularity which started two years ago, and their motto seems to be "Nothing new has been added...
...population. Teachers were (until the depression) well paid and protected from political pillaging by a merit system, the Keyworth Code. They hoped to change Hamtramck's character by raising a new generation of better citizens. Over the door of Copernicus High School was blazoned Keyworth's motto: "To develop individuals who can live successfully in a democracy...