Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat of mighty New York Central. Widely read, a quoter of Spengler and Ortega y Gasset. he wrote an authoritative book on railroads, another on anthracite. His motto: "Be audacious." His battlecry: "Management is notoriously underpaid...
...Soup, soap and salvation" was the motto of the Army's fiery-eyed founder, General William Booth. The Salvationists whom thriving young Grocer Damon heard in Lowell, Mass, in the '80s were so poor they could offer only the last. Damon thought that enough and joined. "We got stoned sometimes," he recalls of his early years as trombone in an Army band. At Quincy, Mass, the whole band was once arrested for disturbing the peace. The others were sentenced to 30 days in jail but 16-year-old Damon was overlooked because he was so small...
...readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and he never came down from the pulpit, even when he was conducting services ostensibly for the children (The Jungle Books, Just So Stories...
...bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. With that motto as his back drop, Hiram Warren Johnson slicked his parted white hair and posed for photographers. Said he: "I am, as my grandmother used to say, as happy as a clam at high tide." The happy clam had just been triple-nominated for his fifth term...
...functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern New York and New England until the end of the 19th Century...