Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the potentialities of a good record are there, the philosophy of the players will be all important. It all depends on whether their motto is "Fight Like Hell" or "What the Hell...
...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...
...Victoria. This easy informality and Frederika's gift for bowling over generals, sergeants and congressmen alike has proved a major asset to a ruling house whose royal motto is: "My power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
Stalin was seen as the force behind the existence of the police and the party, and he was held directly responsible for their activities. Most common description of Stalin by the refugees included the words, "cruel," "stubborn," "bloody," "merciless." The refugees felt that his motto was "Go forward without changes, even if people are hungry, even if millions...
...completed shield, never adopted officially in those early days, was forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Meanwhile, Christo et Ecclenas, another motto suggested in the seventeenth century, gained a wide following...