Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimplecute is a word formed from the initials of the paper's original motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Ever-lastingly.'' Do other readers approve of its sound and proposed meaning enough to sponsor its admission into the language...
...Going Down Sackville Street (the line is from a bawdy ballad) is not patterned in the ordinary, staid memoir manner. Not only by the title but by the book's motto ("We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors") and the author's note ("The names in this book are real, the characters fictitious") readers are warned to hang on to their hats...
...Morse who lived in Needham became wolf-known in literary circles with his biographies of Lincoln, Hamilton, and Franklin. Rogers continued to be a lawyer in Boston throughout his life, going regularly to his office until last Tuesday. By his own admission he lived by the motto: "He who lives moderately, lives a long time...
...liveliest of Jefferson's four dailies was a sheet with the incomprehensible title of The Jimplecute. Colonel Ward Taylor had founded this paper in 1856 when his city was 20 years old and beginning to ride high. Its name came from the initials of the sheet's motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Everlastingly." Peak Jimplecute circulation, in the 1880s, was around 5,000. A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson...
...alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always welcome at Walgreen...