Word: proverb
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...trust" can be composed of 1,000 people scattered all over these United States, most of whom have neither seen nor corresponded with one another, but all of whom delight in solving proverb, booklovers' and cinema picturegames, then this large group is a "trust...
...wise son," says the proverb, "that knoweth his own father"; it often takes a parent of even greater wisdom to recognize his progeny...
Says a Japanese proverb: Bow once to an Eta and you must not lift your head for seven centuries. This unfortunate class, numbering today more than 3,000,000 Japanese (1% of the population), is traditionally made up of the descendants of prisoners taken in battles now remote, forgotten, nameless. Gradually they have been declared "outcast," "defiled," "unclean" and "less than human...
...Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb says--but, in the long run as Nurnri used to say, it is worth it. For physicists can learn what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body and doctors can leave why, when he signs up has chorus, a burlesque manager takes on flesh...
Great oaks, says the age-old and timeworn proverb in effect, are the result of little acorns, and it might be added, acorns nurtured under suitable conditions. Just so in literature great movements spring from relatively small beginnings aided by favorable outward circumstances, and while I hesitate to call the efforts of the writers of early seventeen hundreds small, yet they were but as the bird compared to the burst of bloom which appeared toward the middle of the century...