Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slogans with a human element have always been sought by office-seekers as a very necessary factor in their campaigns. The famous motto of the Democratic party in the recent Senatorial race in Massachusetts, "Dis-Lodge", may be recalled as a perfect example of this. But no other President has ever been able to boast that his birthday, was on July 4, and this will undoubtedly turn out a valuable asset when the votes are counted next November...
...Anhalter railway station reserved for visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
...Women and children first', has always been our national motto. We are helping them in many quarters of the globe and have enabled the holy see to carry out its God-given mission and helped to provide the bread that the Holy Father has given to the hungry little ones of the world-this is our glory and satisfaction today...
...American people must be educated slowly. They are not yet ready for such startling doctrines as the "infallibility of human testimony" and especially when it is backed by the Harvard Law School, no torious for its dangerously advanced views. "Slow but sure--sure to be slow" is an excellent motto for Congress just now, but it may find a better...
...cannot judge religion by church attendance. I think the spirit of Harvard, its goal of search for truth, its ideals, its traditions, its motto are a religion. God is love. The kindly spirit of Harvard men is not usually seen in other colleges. Certainly not in provincial state universities. I think Harvard is the most religious student body in America. By religious I mean with the sanest understanding of Truth...