Word: watchwords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girls to fit every purse and every taste, is the plan of the new agency, whose watchword is quick thorough service. Rates will be 25 cents for the initiation fee, and 15 cents per date; the nightly fee will be returned if she does not satisfy...
...citizens of the capital read some strange bits under the familiar banner heads of what once were their favorite papers. "The only good bondholder," declared Informaciones, a Rightist organ not so long ago, "is a dead bondholder!" In red capitals screaming clear across the page Mundo Obrero clarioned THE WATCHWORD IS EXTERMINATION ! and approvingly reported that embattled miners of the Government militia were
Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting...
...pointed out in answer that, so far as the Methodist Episcopal Church was concerned, our watchword was this: 'Nothing that has to do with human welfare is foreign to Methodism.' This seemed to please him. . . ." Of Hinduism the man whom Editor Hartman calls "India's Lincoln" said: "Hinduism is not a religion; it is a disease...
...average truck speeds but simply because a pleasantly bulbous monster with plenty of chromium sells faster than a dull, angular one. Cabs are comfortable, smartly finished, scientifically ventilated, and more of them have been shoved forward over the engine. Performance has been stepped up but SAFETY is now the watchword. A good truck will stop faster than a light roadster, and while pleasure car accidents have increased nearly 60% in the past eight years, commercial vehicle accidents have risen only about 10%. Bus accidents have actually declined. Nearly all truckmakers are experimenting with Diesel engines, though only 600 Diesel-powered...