Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suaviter, Portlier." That night, when the President walked into his office with his final draft (which he had edited considerably with black pencil after the last typing), he was relaxed and jovial. On his desk in front of the lectern rested an inch-high plate bearing the Latin motto, Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...
...President should be reelected, that would mean for the Eisenhower group a lease of four more years during which to try to remake the party into what is sometimes called "the Eisenhower image." By this is meant an internationalist, moderately progressive political organization which has "moderation" as its motto. It also might bring on a prolonged Republican control of government...
Dulce est periculum seems a rather extreme motto for a publication as mild and retiring as the Advocate. Usually considered a hangout for the "esthetes," sometimes not considered at all, the Advocate at present is a literary magazine in the strictest sense. Its primary aim, according to John Ratte '57, the president, is to "print the best of undergraduate writing, whether experimental or in a traditional form." But this is only a very recent development in the 90-year history of the magazine. Each board has its own special point of view, and at times the editors have really appeared...
Although through the years by fits and starts the Advocate has become increasingly literary in its bent, for a long while it still did not entirely abandon its motto. After the political period of the '80's, its editors merely seemed to prefer to find their danger in defending the freedom of the press--by testing the public censors with sensational (i.e., candid) stories and pornographic parodies. The first allegedly indecent story appeared in 1884, but 1894 was the year of the first major crisis, when "Kid," a story about a Harvardman and his mistress appeared...
...Here I am. Here I stay," reads the inscription on a war memorial in Philippeville, but few of the 35,000 Europeans living on their raw nerves in or near the embattled Algerian seaport now feel like making it their own motto. In the days before the restless, roving bands of fellagha began pillaging, burning, looting, killing, and destroying all that the French had brought to their country, busy, picturesque Philippeville had hoped to become "the Nice of Algeria...