Word: possumus
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...event in Chicago for Democratic governors on June 20, the Obama campaign placed an official-looking seal on the candidate's lectern, clearly intended to resemble the Seal of the President of the U.S. In place of E PLURIBUS UNUM, it read VERO POSSUMUS, a rough Latin translation of Obama's slogan "Yes we can." Republicans, the media and even some Democrats slammed the move as uncomfortably presumptuous; a McCain spokesman called the gesture "laughable, ridiculous [and] preposterous...
...blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...
...praestantissime, felix ille miles." (Most illustrious Alfred, thou happy warrior). Thus was Alfred E. Smith addressed by R. S. Fitzgerald '33 in the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises this morning. Fitzgerald went on to greet Smith in the following words: "Quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus, to inquam de tota nostra patria bene meritum, haud minus iuvat salutare." As translated last night, this means something like the following: "Although we cannot sing of the sidewalks (streets) of New York, as thou hast merited well of our country, it is no less a pleasure to greet...
...frontier guards of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia collided near Kosice (formerly Kashau). One Czecho-Slovak was killed. The Prague Government made representations to Budapest, but the Royal Hungarian Government assumed a non possumus attitude. The Czecho-Slovakian Government, determined to have the matter out, closed the frontier to all Hungarians. A few days later Hungary recognized her responsibility and communications became normal...
Atqui Musa illa vocata non audit; rogata tacet; virumque praeconio altiore dignum sermone pedestri laudandum relinquit. Ergo, utcunque possumus, virum libenter laudamus, qui, cum ingenii sui ope aeris thesaurum ingentem invenisset, Academiam suam divitiarum suarum amplitudine ornavit, iudice me (insusurrare mihi videtur Horatius), iudice me, "non sordidus auctor naturae verique." Quid autem de vivario illo dicam, aequoris Atlantici prope marginem ulteriorem condito, ubi maris immensi miracula minutis-sima ab hoc viro accuratissime examinantur, ubi oceani ipsius e penetralibus profundis rerum naturae veritas ipsa audacter extorquetur? Satis erit hodie de veritate illa dicere quad olim de Romanorum virtute dictum...