Word: semper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literally translated motto would be: Ventrem semper impingentes (Those always bumping the belly). An omnibus noun would be Ventrimpactors. The Latin name of the pilot fish is Naucrates ductor...
...assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing how the man of the people could triumph over the crafts and subtleties of classical pundits that all Philistia wanted to believe...