Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the motto that practice makes perfect will find new application. But at least, it is certain that comparatively few of the now "modern" works will stand the test of time. Only quality survives and the classics of the past appear moderately safe even in competition with the multitude of modern books...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of crudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...when all is said, Clive, as an astute but kindly Lancashire factory owner, is the main-spring of what would otherwise be an unreal and rather heavy problem play. He is an elderly man whose motto has been "have a good time", and who has lived up to it; and whose "religion is a respectable pastime for Sundays". He is the embodiment of common sense, the foil to his rebellious protege, Charlie, and the saving grace of the performance. He is supreme in all business affairs, but, like most great men, he has one weakness--his daughter, Rosie. Her character...
...wants is quantity- all the measurements of time, space, and movement in the nth degree. We have the fastest locomotives, the biggest hotels, the longest railroads, and the largest crops in the world, and 'these measurements are their chief justification. Not how fine but how much is our motto, and the circus has made of this article of American faith a dazzling reductio ad absurdum. The influence of Barnum, the father of Buncombe, on American culture is incalculable. The whole paraphernalia of circus terminology has been lifted bodily from the circus by the moving picture people, who measure their...