Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange went in for fancy guild crests, its motto, most U. S. citizens have been led to believe, would be Laissez Faire. Until 1930, when stockbroking as a whole fell into public disrepute, the Exchange was content to make sure that its members were personally straight. Since that time it has given a good deal of thought and some lip service to Reform. President Richard Whitney from time to time made footling pleas that all companies listed on the Big Board issue in the interest of their shareholders honest, complete and accurate statements. Many an offending concern indifferently...
...anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon gathered that whenever Propagandist Frank said "Turks'" he meant Chancellor Dollfuss and the Jews, knew that by "one country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because...
...worth (445 pp., five love affairs), Zest is the fifth of Author Norris' monosyllabic titles. There is little apparent connection between the title and the story, whose key is given in the motto- quotation from Isaiah: "And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day." All seven in Zest get a good grip on the hero, though (Biblically speaking) he is on knowledgeable terms with only four...
GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...
...sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones-"Be Not Afraid"- may be even better for a live man than a dead one. Gabriel Service decides not to sell his store, has his old employe in for tea. As an incentive to optimism the picture...