Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouted: "The splendid victory of Barcelona is another chapter in the new Europe we are creating. General Franco's magnificent troops and our fearless legionnaires not only have beaten [Premier Dr. Juan] Negrin's government, but many others of our enemies are now biting the dust. Their motto was 'No pasarán,' but we did pass and I tell you we will continue...
...interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
...Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
Married to Michael shortly before he sailed in 1913 to become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...