Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover her own masculine traits." Dr. Hirschfeld's Institute, founded in 1919, was later taken over and renamed for him by the Prussian Government. Over its door he put the motto of Hitler's hero, Frederick the Great, "I intend in my State that every man amuse himself in his own way." But the Nazis, many of whom had been treated for abnormalities by Dr. Hirschfeld, called his work "un-German," seized and destroyed half a ton of his priceless files...
...last week Richard summarily dismissed Mr. Kaufmann for "disloyalty and insubordination." Furious, President Bernard, on whose Manhattan office wall hangs the motto: "To be Right is Desirable, To Seem Right is Essential," seized pen, dispatched to Cousin Richard a telegram: "YOU ARE HEREBY SUSPENDED AS AN OFFICER AND EMPLOYE OF GIMBEL BROS. INC. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORTHWITH LEAVE THE STORE. YOUR AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ANY ORDERS OR IN ANY WAY ACT FOR THE COMPANY IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN. YOUR UNAUTHORIZED ACTION . . . CONCERNING MR. KAUFMANN AT A TIME WHEN YOU KNEW DIRECTORS WERE CON- TEMPLATING NOT TO RE-ELECT...
...Tovarishchi who helped build it. Driven through quicksand and swampy ground in two years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what the future will be like under Socialism." all the stations are panelled in rare marble, decorated with huge murals in fresco and mosaic, lit by solid bronze fixtures. The gleaming...
...ever stop to consider that you, too, are a possible selection for the Princeton Crew? Some go up and some go down, here today and gone tomorrow, seems to be the motto of the Tiger coach. For, would you believe it, Princeton has no varsity crew...
University of Chicago's short, round Dean Aaron J. Brumbaugh worried privately for a week before he took two conservative-looking professors to call at Mr. Walgreen's office. Mr. Walgreen seated them among pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies...