Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This second motto is self-explanatory. Here is no light Wellsian fantasy with a happy ending. Having written two volumes, William Clissold dies in an .automobile smash, as related by his brother in the epilogue...
...buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen (Elizabeth). Nor did any of these know that such skill in forming minute letters is often a sign of nervous disease...
Great worry could be attached to such an alarming predicament were it not for the sanity and perseverance of the business department of this paper. With Premier Haldwin as their guide and sana means in corpore sano as their motto they are standing, bloody but unbowed before the rushing legions of adversity. So none need fear any revolution in Cambridge. Plus as change--as Talley-rand might comment--plus c'est la meme chose...
...national motto...
...cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...