Word: requiescat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mike, Farewell! We all regret you, Although you would not let us pet you; Of cats, the wisest oldest best cat, This be your motto,-Requiescat...
...noise, but Mayor Walker may proclaim a quiet hour, when traffic shall cease, dogs be muzzled and babies gagged, and "all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;" If this should be found practicable, some way may be found to add to the other mottoes of a university, Requiescat in pace...
Where are the candidates of five years ago? Harding is dead. Requiescat. Cox exists. Requiescat. Coolidge sits in the White House, where there is no rest. Lowden is busy farming and perhaps planning for the campaign of '28. McAdoo resides not many miles from San Francisco, where he failed of the nomination in '20. And Wood? Wood is across the Pacific with the Igorots and the Moros and their more civilized but equally quarrelsome neighbors...
...Requiescat in pace", some think, should apply to the body as well as to the soul. Protest against the removal of General Oglethorpe's remains from England to Georgia all but reached the proportions of the storms which centered about the disinterement of Pocahontas or King...
...restraining influence to bear on Mussolini and saved the situation, establishing its own position as a permanent force for peace. But the critics are up in wrath claiming that the death-knell of the League has been sounded, flouted and defied by Italy, and requiring only the in pace requiescat" or the equivalent pagan expression to send it forever to limbo. It is almost too much for the man on the fence. But perhaps there is light ahead. Some months ago Senator Johnson complained that he had no issue on which to fight President Harding for the Republican nomination...