Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rank well up among the "twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...
Quick Growth. If Ambassador Joe had a motto, it might well be Operando Tutus, Secure by Operating. Joseph Patrick Kennedy's father came over from Ireland, became the mellow-voiced boss of Ward 2 in East Boston. Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental observation: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime...
...dance on the station, a most unusual event, has been scheduled for next Saturday, May 13. For the benefit of the very worthwhile Navy Relief, the tea dance (1600-1800) will be held at Potter. Class morale officers will be taking contributions for the next ten days, and the motto is "Dig deep...
...There should be a new University motto: Walt Whitman's line, "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
...Lord Catto last week explained his crest, which is "Touch not gloveless." Said he: "It Is a Scots motto, and means literally, do not touch the cat with a gloveless hand; it may scratch you. Appropriate, yes, but it has nothing to do with my name. The College of Heralds would not make a pun, you snow. Catto means fight, battle...