Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall always entertain a lively sense of the great kindness and hospitality of Phillips Brooks House. "Piety, charity, and hospitality', have become through the influence of the House my watchwords and motto throughout my life. It has been my life-long ambition to establish a Phillips Brooks House here in Calcutta University for the good of the student body and I hope I will be successful in it. The one real and lasting influence in my Harvard life is the Brooks House Association...
...remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice will finally be made illegal, we shall have reached the acme of perfection. The motto "Honi Soit--" is out of date, anyway...
...power, is tottering on the edge of a precipice. When the edict was first issued from beneath the golden dome on Beacon Hill the populace rose as one man to back up their popular leader; and for nearly three years "Law and Order" has been a sort of sub-motto for the Commonwealth...
...today this motto is in grave danger. I refer to the attempt to remove Harold D. Wilson from the position of Prohibition Enforcement Officer merely because he has "shown up" a few prominent politicians while enforcing the law. And what is worse, the very ones who seem likely to wreck this worthy principle are the fellow partisans of its originator...
With "Three Live Ghosts" this week, the St. James renews its tradition of bringing popular successes to Boston. Here is a bubbling comedy that belies from start to finish the "Peace, Perfect Peace" of the "motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead...