Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armed menace of Germany. France turned to him. As Premier and War Minister he hounded such spies as Bolo Pasha to death, championed Foch and rushed out to the fighting front every few days to see how things were going for himself. At that period he had one motto, one battle cry: "Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre...
About the card of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, however, the critics were again at odds. Said one, "How attractive! A beautiful Dutch garden; the garden at Kensington Palace! And Alexandra, of course, loves flowers!" Quoth another, "So far so good. But the motto! Has the Queen Mother no competent advisers in these matters...
...philosophize, I will be read, was the motto of the Magenta, the ancestor of the present CRIMSON. And for practically 53 years the Magenta and later the CRIMSON have been read. read widely, by three generations of Harvard students. Since its first publication by the members of the Junior class on January 24, 1873, what is now the University daily has held an important part in Harvard life, functioning first as a literary fortnightly, then as a weekly newspaper, and finally as the daily which it is today...
...there is a lot more to it, but that's just an example. Rereading it now reminds me I haven't turned my headlights of Prophecy on today's contests. Before I do that, I'd like to announce that I have appropriated the motto which consigns Yale to the nether world for my own. The boys at New Haven have had an unpleasant way of acting exactly as I think they shouldn't act. But I feel sure I have put them in their right places today...
...Bible, the spirit is: 'What I have, you shall have;' while unfortunately the apparent motto of Communism is: 'What you have, I shall have...