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...Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post, the Chronicle and the Press would certainly have found life simpler had they lived up to a motto engraved in stone over the entrance of the Houston Post building: LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED...
...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman
...space," and at the same time have lost the edge in military strength to the Russians. "Is it possible that the richest nation in history can no longer afford to be the strongest?" Instead of "speak softly and carry a big stick," as Theodore Roosevelt advised, the Republican motto is "talk tough and carry a toothpick...
...read all the books he could cart away from the Workmen's Institute, overcame a stammer by reciting Shakespeare to anyone who would listen, and at 21 was sent by his fellow miners to London's Central Labor College. The school's militant motto: "Educate, Agitate, Organize...
...became gentlemen heralded by a hawk brandishing a spear, and the motto Non sans Droit (Not Without Right), which Ben Jonson promptly parodied as "Not Without Mustard...