Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mike, Farewell! We all regret you, Although you would not let us pet you; Of cats, the wisest oldest best cat, This be your motto,-Requiescat...
...Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
...Quick action without public washing of 'soiled linen' and without ruining the defendant's character, that is my motto!" says Señor del Toro...
...Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could have been the richest man in the U. S." He lived in Manhattan and at "Oak Ridge" on the site of his birthplace* in Nelson County, Virginia; and the middle name, which might have been his motto, was given him by his parents who died when he was five years...