Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall have the honor, sir, to meet you with drawn claymore, sir, behind the auld kirk at dawn. To paraphrase the Scottish national motto, Nemo me impune lactessit...
...original motto of Scotland's Order of the Thistle is: Nemo me impune lacessit (No man provokes me with impunity). Rough translation of Reader Henderson's paraphrase: "No one may milk me without paying the piper...
...room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Va., a group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
...been thought of by generations of Harvard men as the center for religious activities. The House's motto, "Charity, Piety, and Hospitality," was linked with the precepts of religion. It seemed the logical place from which to launch a back-to-religion movement...
...nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital: anything that makes a person feel uncomfortably conspicuous leads to mental upsets and ought to be corrected if possible. Dr. Apton's motto: "Plastic surgery is a surgical method of psychotherapy...