Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James tried to quote his own school motto, came out with "Omnia labora vinces," looked puzzled as students roared.* Because she was traveling on an Italian passport with her producer-husband Monty Banks (born Mario Bianchi), technically an enemy alien, blowzy British Cine-comedienne Gracie Fields, C. B. E., was halted by Canadian immigration authorities, given a two-hour grilling before being granted a two-month-stay permit, allowed to continue to California...
...Motto of the Ajax: Nee quisquam nisi Ajax, which in the U. S. Navy would be translated, "We can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
...gave him the button of our group, which bears upon it our motto, "Hero or Zero". I gave him the Y.A.A. armband. He took them, but never wore them. Once he cuddled up to me and asked, "When are we going to have our first parade?" A suggestion from me that he get ready for the parade by putting on a red shirt made him look sick. When I saw how green he turned I gave up hope of marking a storm-trooper out of him. I had been looking for a hero, and I had found...
...founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...