Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week out of these headquarters issued stacks and stacks of envelopes addressed to alert women Democrats all over the U. S. When each woman Democrat opened her envelope, she learned that what the Democratic Party needs is slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes. They had decided that the way to get slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes, is to have a contest, give prizes. They had decided that the most economical way to raise money for prizes is to charge a fee for entering the contest. They had decided that $100 is fair for first prize in a slogan, motto, jingle...
...Times: "It is a comfort to New Yorkers to think of their Mayor dressed in a double-breasted grey coat and. . . trousers, as he reclines upon the sunny sands. . . assimilating the wisdom he has acquired on the 'Grand Tour.'. . . They are proud to realize that his motto has been to improve each shining hour, even if this has meant activities far into the night. ... To the itinerant Mr. Walker falls the task of noting, marking and inwardly digesting . . . information, and doing it within a brief respite after a tour of inspection of Venetian ballrooms lasting until...
...white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight ago. Heading west, they were cheered by U. S. Boy Scouts as supreme symbols of the motto: "Be Prepared." Not only have they earned all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers, but they expect to conquer frozen Siberian steppes in their Ford...
...Scout?" says: "A scout is a patriot and is always ready to serve his country at a minute's notice. ... He desires a strong body, an alert mind and an unconquerable spirit so that he may serve his country in any need. . . . A scout chooses as his motto 'Be Prepared...
...tore off the arm of his mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward set by the State of Missouri for Jesse's capture or extermination. A lyricist of the day wrote: Why did they kill him thus so sudden...