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...last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian soldiers; that Russian bureaucracy is detached enough to allow Voyetekhov a story at its expense. Another good story, more or less at his own expense...
...Abbott-Costello opus would take the sting out of 20 other "A" pictures. Like Laurel and Hardy, Wheeler and Woolsey, A. and C. don't know when to stop. Right now they're riding the original wave of popularity which started two years ago, and their motto seems to be "Nothing new has been added...
...population. Teachers were (until the depression) well paid and protected from political pillaging by a merit system, the Keyworth Code. They hoped to change Hamtramck's character by raising a new generation of better citizens. Over the door of Copernicus High School was blazoned Keyworth's motto: "To develop individuals who can live successfully in a democracy...
...death at Quebec. They were the original "Horse Marines." They charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava and lost 76% of their number. The 17th Lancers and 21st Lancers were amalgamated in 1922, and they lost their horses in 1938. Their badge is a death's head, their motto is "Or Glory," and they call themselves "the tots," from der Tod, German for death...
Admiral Waesche is proud that the Coast Guard, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton, is older than the U.S. Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...