Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
...reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
...dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the Dydee Laundry...
...port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom they would have to fight was a big mystery...
Died. Eugénie Avril de Sainte-Croix, 84, famed French feminist who was converted to woman suffrage by U. S. Suffragette Susan B. Anthony; in Menton, France. Feminist de Sainte-Croix's motto: "Not to permit women to descend to the morality of men, but rather to raise men to the morality of women...