Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...
...some time on sympathy for his father and the good feeling engendered by his impending marriage next January to Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to facilitate his task. But ultimately Constantine can calm Greece's latent antimonarchist feelings only by calling, like his father, on the motto of his royal house: "My power is the love of my people...
...been based not on wild promises of a golden future but on a clear-eyed appraisal of the hard work that lay ahead. His own sober determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle. His army rose against him; riots exploded in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Only by calling in British troops did Nyerere survive. When the smoke cleared...
...fitting motto for Swarthmore College near Philadelphia would be the exhortation that a Quaker math professor used to give her students: "Use thy gumption." Though it seems pathetically small (547 men, 447 women), Swarthmore has such gumptious devotion to excellence that some awed academics call it the No. 1 college in the U.S. However impious this may appear to Yale or Harvard, hundreds of the country's brightest youngsters have reason to agree. Of 2,000 applicants in a typical year, Swarthmore enrolls only about 260-making it one of the toughest colleges in the U.S. to get into...
...William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch Protestants, the monarchy's most fiercely loyal subjects, the royal family's motto, "I Will Maintain," is an unspoken, centuries-old pledge to defend their faith against all foes. For many Dutchmen, Franco's Spain...