Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter of a diplomat (Charles Charnaud), secretary, wife and widow of a Viceroy of India, Lady Reading explains the knack of getting big and little things done by the motto she has chosen for WVS: FLEXIBILITY. A plastic and gracious personality, she likes to travel (24,000 mi. on a speaking tour through Britain during the past year) and particularly in the U. S., where she has visited thrice and where she is usually mistaken for her step-daughter-in-law, the present Marchioness of Reading. The Viceroy told her the best way to understand the American people...
...range, they constitute a first-line of defense against enemy war-boats far at sea off either coast from bases far inland. Yet the same go-easy policy prevails as when the "flying fortress" squadron (2nd Bombardment Group) which circled South America last year was ordered to erase its motto, Mors et Destructio ("Death and Destruction"), from its coat-of-arms. The bomber boys wonder if the higher-ups would like them to adopt the motto "Love and Kisses...
...attacked France from the south, Generalissimo Gamelin would undoubtedly arm his 250,000 Loyalist guests and turn them loose on their former enemies. Like most of his countrymen, Maurice Gamelin hopes this may never be necessary. But the terse little (5 ft. 4 in.) general has a terse little motto: "Optimism is a luxury...
...prohibition went into effect Bombay's whites arose in their hangovers to find 500,000 natives milling in the streets. Egged on by Parsis, bone-dry Moslems paraded, denouncing, not prohibition, but the tax increase, stoned Hindu bystanders. Police and Prohibition Guards (see cut), whose motto is "harder than a diamond, yet softer than a flower," went into action. At the end of it more than 40 had been injured by bullets, blows or bludgeons, a 10 p. m. curfew was clapped on Bombay for 14 days, and assemblies of more than five forbidden. To popularize prohibition, authorities...
...Commander King-Hall's fourth letter to his "dear German readers" reached Germany, Britishers received in their morning mail copies of a mimeographed pamphlet entitled News From Germany. Published by Dr. Goebbels' good friend H. R. Hoffmann of Starnberg, News From Germany bears beneath its masthead the motto...