Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yourself in his place," murmured the Professor to the lethal lackeys crowding about the dais. "Yes, siree. That's my motto. ... So never let blood through the carotid artery [he caressed his colleagues throat] for then he looks as if he had been butchered. Whenever possible, do it through the auxiliary artery. [The colleague's armpit was indicated.] Yes, siree. Put yourself in his place. . . . When my experiments are completed, I'll have seven different kinds of cosmetic powders, one for every type of skin. That will make a corpse look realistic. That's the thing...
Representatives of every state in the Union met in Manhattan. Their mission : the Child Welfare Conference (TIME, May 18). Their motto: "A home for every child-preferably with his mother...
...visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...
...beauties of the landscape. The graceful swell of the meadow will no longer be surmounted by pork-and-beans; canned-milk cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist, country bent...
Every member of the Why-nots wears about his neck a brass collar on which is engraved the motto of the tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...