Word: proverbes
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...there is any truth in the old proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
...Right Reverend Doctor Slattery and his committee, all mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...
There are obvious disadvantages to having such receptacles about: some artistic temperaments might be crazed by the violation of the classic beauty of the Yard. I only beg them to compare the pictures. There is a proverb somewhere about the "lesser of two evils is there...
...permitted myself to recall a proverb which I begged them not to mention lest it should create a slight coolness be- tween the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself. But, as I have mentioned it to him today, I may perhaps repeat it to the House. I said to those with whom I talked: 'We have an English proverb: Why bark yourself when you keep...
Pictures were sent at the rate of about one every 20 minutes. The first to come was President Coolidge. The next, Secretary Hughes. Next came a Chinese proverb in heavy type: "One picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted...