Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian Order makes the bearer an honorary hereditary cousin of the King of Italy. The motto on the collar of the Order: FERT...
...always supposed that this motto was always credited to James Lawrence and that he was supposed to have said it during the War of 1812 and the battle between the Chesapeake, which he commanded, and the British ship Shannon, in which his ship was taken and he lost his life. Did Perry then have flags made, bearing this motto, for his own use ? It seems to me that the words ascribed to Perry ran: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours...
...Reader Johnson, Author Fuller and TIME'S reviewer are all on the beam. James Lawrence said the words. Captain Perry's flagship at Erie was named the Lawrence, and so it was fitting that he should have a battle flag with the motto...
...YOUR PICTURE OF GROTESQUELY PAINTED "DEMON MASKS" (TIME, NOV. 9) NEGLECTED TO SAY THAT IT WAS TAKEN AT THE TEXAS PLANT OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION. AS ONE OF ITS WORKERS I KNOW THAT NORTH AMERICAN IS LIVING UP TO ITS MOTTO "TO KEEP 'EM FLYING GET 'EM BUILT...
Though Alexander had the misfortune to command two retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard...