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...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...
...Famed conman and gambler, shot in 1898 in a Skagway brawl. * Correct "Labor omnia vincit...
James tried to quote his own school motto, came out with "Omnia labora vinces," looked puzzled as students roared.* Because she was traveling on an Italian passport with her producer-husband Monty Banks (born Mario Bianchi), technically an enemy alien, blowzy British Cine-comedienne Gracie Fields, C. B. E., was halted by Canadian immigration authorities, given a two-hour grilling before being granted a two-month-stay permit, allowed to continue to California...
Many authorities believe that Emile Zola wrote The Dream because he wanted very much to get into the French Academy. It is almost aggressively innocuous, but beside Emile Zola's name in the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum are the words opera omnia, all his works including his snowdrop among weeds," The Dream...
...interests widened to include candy shops in London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned a steam yacht before he was interested in sailing. He first challenged...