Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arnold Schoenberg himself once said: "I will not show you that my music is beautiful. You know it not . . . I know it." And this might be taken as the lasting and only motto against those who apply to Schoenberg and Berg criticism like that of the Musical Courier...
...fresh as a newspaper. The Reconstruction of Europe is in part a lively resuscitation of the Congress of Vienna from corridors, back rooms and boudoirs. The Austrian secret police dogged everybody at the Congress where Emperor Francis I played host, and their reports, meticulously preserved by the Habsburgs whose motto was never to throw a piece of paper away, have a narrative verve and unvarnished realism which are a Ferrero specialty...
...commander of the 507th Regiment of the Chars de Combat, drawn from the neighborhood of Metz in Lorraine. The two-barred Cross of Lorraine was a part of the badge. When General de Gaulle sought an emblem for Free France he chose the Cross of Lorraine, with the motto Honneur, Patrie. The former word is missing from Vichy-france's motto...
...Motto of the Bank of England has always been: "Never explain. Never apologize." To newspaper criticisms of the Bank Norman once said merely: "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on." But in wartime England such hauteur no longer suffices. After Picture Post featured an article last spring demanding that Norman retire, he appointed the Bank's first press-relations officer in history...
Getting religion twelve years ago, Inayatullah went native with a bang. He became Allama Mashriqi, "The Sage of the East," began preaching resistance to the British as a starter. The Spadecarriers now sport a grandiloquent motto: "To establish hegemony over the world, to become rulers once again, and to conquer the universe...