Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purple Passage. Dizzy's motto...
...casino a scandal. Then they got used to it, for the price of furnished rooms began to rise considerably. There is hardly a family which does not have a croupier as a paying guest at 20 to 25,000 lire a month. My parishioners live up to the motto: 'Since you eat, why shouldn't I? Therefore let's all eat in the name of the Lord.' " Noisy Tenants. The Roman Catholic bishops of Rimini and Montefeltro (San Marino is almost due east of Florence) called the casino a sink of iniquity. Italy's Demo...
Branch Rickey, a man who knows mon about baseball than Veeck does, once occupied Veeck's present office. He left a sign on the wall: "Get the ballplayers and the rest will take care of itself." Though the motto worked well for Rickey, Veeck does not agree with it. Says he: "You've always got to be thinking about fans who wish they had gone to the circus. Baseball fans are like anyone else. If you buy breakfast food and it tastes like sawdust, you don't buy any more. That's what's been...
...sinister about a child who shakes hands firmly and says 'Good morning' as if he meant it." Pupils are not just given paints and brushes and allowed to do as they please. They are taught the meaning of color and design, and, in accordance with the Buckley motto ("Self-expression through self-discipline"), to draw with skill and to finish what they start...
...major was determined to live as a Byron. He used the arms and motto of the family, impressed the Byron crest on his stationery and silverware. He even made his living by forging Byron letters, and did so well at it that he branched out to include letters guaranteed (by the major) to be from the pens of Keats and Shelley...