Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...store sold three suits instead of the usual one hundred and fifty. Little conveniences, like fifty-yard line seats to football games, cashing checks, and bailing valuable sinners out of jail, all serve to keep the tailors and their "church school" clientele "a nice congenial group." This "congenial group" motto is the real secret of the custom tailor. It is a group made up of boys who have known each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them...
...Club's motto is "De best stuurli staan an walk," which translated into white man's language, means approximately"the best pilots stand on the shore." There is a plan afoot to give lectures on the niceties of side walking kibbitzing...
...shipboard service in the seven seas, of fighting in Haiti and Nicaragua, of duty in Samoa and Shanghai. He reads that history in campaign ribbons on oldtimers' blouses, in battle streamers on the regimental flags, in the Corps motto, "Semper Fidelis." He is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down...
...accomplish this tremendous plan, Franklin Roosevelt could no longer keep his attention focused on lesser domestic affairs. His motto had always been: first things first. Wendell Willkie had cajnpaigned honestly for things Americans had always believed in: liberation of free enterprise from Government controls; relief of profits from tax burdens (especially punitive taxes); and a steady restriction of the sphere of Government activity...
...violent temper. When, aged 23, she started her school in Wallingford, Conn., she had no college degree but very definite educational notions. British-born and a militant feminist, she decided that girls should get no more coddling than boys, set out to establish a girls' Eton. Her motto: "No rot." Her program: athletics for all, self-government, hard work...