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Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
...Brien and Frank McHugh) who win a beauty contest with a composite photograph of Harlow, Garbo, Dietrich et al. and then palm off a dowdy chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...
During that session Harlow created quite an impression by the hustling, hard-working type of practice he demanded. His motto seemed to be "Hurry up", and there was never any doubt as to his attitude towards loafing. A continuance of this policy this fall will make Varsity football practice no bed of roses, but it is the only possible way to whip the available material into shape for the string of hard games that follows he Springfield opener...
...Hague last week clam-mouthed Dutch officials would not discuss "The White Front." Shushing all queries, they told the great and patriotic lie that "there is no crisis in The Netherlands now," added that the entire situation is covered by Dutch determination to continue applying the motto of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House, "Je Maintiendrai" ("I will maintain...
Attilio's first design for the Italian Building's glass panel Mr. Rockefeller thought a shade "too servile." An honest workman, Attilio redesigned it, eliminating two shoveling workmen and putting in the motto in Italian, "Art is Labor, Labor...