Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literally translated motto would be: Ventrem semper impingentes (Those always bumping the belly). An omnibus noun would be Ventrimpactors. The Latin name of the pilot fish is Naucrates ductor...
Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
...Dien ("I Serve") is the motto of the Prince of Wales. Last week, between the hours of 3:30 a. m. and dawn, H. R. H. served all comers to the Chilean Casino at Vina del Mar as dealer for the "big" baccarat bank...
...many novelists who grapple with the amenities of everyday life, Elizabeth M. Delafield (Mrs. Paul Dashwood) is one of the most successful because most delightfully light-fingered. One of her books, attempting to describe The Way Things Are in a typical country household, had the memorable motto: "I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat." When you have become thoroughly acquainted with a Delafield heroine you know she is entertainingly human, can only wonder helplessly whether to praise or blame...
...Coumbia possesses not 48,000 students,* but on a generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses in] 'poultry-raising,' 'wrestling, judo and self-defense.' Is this not an appalling situation?" Harvard may some day change its motto from "Veritas" to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria" (Truth and the Art of Selling). "The Harvard Business School raises neither ethical nor social questions ... it does not even take a broad view of business as business . . . the main emphasis of the school ... is concentrated on 'getting on.' ... University of Chicago applicants...