Word: mottoes
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...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...
...Knight of the Thistle is the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Claud George Bowes-Lyon, a descendant of Scottish kings far more ancient in lineage than is Britain's Royal House. The Earl, pious and as Scotch as the Thistle itself, is at pains to uphold the motto of his House: In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust...
Then, too, there is the spirit of the Corps--something intangible, something which grows into one after one wears the gray. A lowly plebe has some of it--a first classman, quite a bit more. It is that attraction which our motto, "Duty, Honor, Country," holds for us. It stays with one long after his Cadet days are over. It is that spirit that we of the Corps are treading today "where they of the Corps have trod." It is somewhat different from that spirit of brotherhood and fellowship between men who say, "I am a Harvard...
...announce himself as the implacable foe of things that we count most dear. . . . Let there be no wavering. Let us march steadily forward to victory. 'In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.' Let us baptize afresh our Christian Endeavor motto, 'For Christ and Our Church...
...playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...