Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...
Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...
...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
...probably would have dribbled mascara onto my new blouse if Lisa hadn't made a simple statement, a marvelous motto for new models. She said: "You wouldn't be here if they didn't want...