Word: mottoes
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...worried about the problem of rallying and holding his forces. To him the enemy was less Communism than apathy. So he worried even about symbols. "When the Catholic Vanguardists were first formed, in 1919," he said, "they had a black flag embroidered with a golden cross and the motto 'Christ or Death.' It was an exciting flag. But the Fascists got a monopoly on the color black; so we have to fall back on white-the color of innocence but hardly inspiring. . . . Those cursed Fascists...
...time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still has its old emblem-a torch, surrounded by maple leaves and topped by a Canadian beaver-and its motto: Serviam (I shall serve). When N.U.P. comes into the open, blue shirts presumably will again be the uniform. This time there will be no swastika shoulder patches...
...Japanese and Chinese language schools, but last month in federal court they won the right to start up again. In many homes, where parents speak no English and children no Japanese, pidgin is the only family tongue. One pidgin phrase is known as far as Italy. It is the motto of the famed Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Combat Team in World War II: "Go for broke" ("Give it everything...
Fronti Nulla Fides. Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man behind the prim bearing...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...