Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posted throughout Dunbar Vocational High School are cards bearing a Ben Franklin motto: "He that hath a trade hath an estate." The exhortation is hardly needed at the rambling tan brick school on Chicago's squalid South Side. To its 2,300 youngsters, 99% of them Negro, Dunbar is a life raft in a sea of poverty. It is perhaps the most effective vocational school...
...other hand, was noticeably annoyed. "Look here, Friends," he growled, addressing Chicken Little, "I certainly hope Henny Penny is not insulting my integrity. I wouldn't sell people something they couldn't use. Fox Holes may not be perfect, but 'they're better than nothing.' That's our company motto. Henny Penny seeks to soften us for destruction. I'm getting to think Henny Penny should be put out of the way." The fox bared his fangs and advanced toward...
...Bros, today does not even remember that he was there. He was miscast (gangster, blue-eyed Arab) in a few pictures and spent most of his time performing at Slapsie Maxie's nightclub. Gleason would drink iced-tea tumblers full of whisky ("No booze, no laughs" was his motto) before going onstage to sing and dance and do improvisations, low comedy, and devastating imitations of more celebrated performers. Retreating to New York, and turned down for service in World War II on physical grounds, Gleason spent several professionally lean years doing club work and bit parts in Broadway shows...
...hide nothing; to try everything.'' This is the motto of Vadim's hero and heroine (Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau), a man and wife who not only tolerate but even energetically promote each other's affaires de corps. And then, afterward-oo la la! What fun it is to lie in bed together and tell what happened. One night the wife has the sulks: her lover of the moment has jilted her for an innocent young girl (Jeanne Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind...
...done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously in defense of their country. This is a division which is all American-and as an American, I am proud of it." In answer, the entire division shouted its motto: "Airborne! Airborne...