Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweden, it is smiles. Bonniers, largest publishing firm in Sweden, is sponsoring a smiles campaign which is calculated to brighten the sunless months. The Bonniers motto, plastered on walls and repeated in the newspapers: "Visa solsidan" (Show sunny side...
...Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out of the top window. Its platform: "Death and scorn to the wicked and incompetent who have brought Hellas to this plight." There was the Greek Orthodox Party, whose leader exhibited his own photograph in white pleated national dress, with the motto, "Love is the mother of happiness." Among the rest were the National Rebirth Party, the Motorists' Party, and the Large Working Families Party...
...Principal Key. His own music was serious, passionately melodic, chronically chromatic and constantly shifting key. His motto was "Modulate." Once, listening to the improvisations of a bright young student named Claude Debussy, Franck cried, "Modulate, modulate!" Debussy replied: "Why should I when I am perfectly happy in this key?" and forthwith changed teachers. He enraged such enemies as Camille Saint-Saëns and baffled occasional defenders like Ambroise (Mignon) Thomas. Said Thomas: "How can you describe a symphony as in the key of D minor when the principal theme at the ninth bar goes into D flat...