Word: watchwords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this eleventh year of Fascism," shouted Premier Benito Mussolini to 5,000 Fascist students massed in the square below his office last week, "your watchword more than ever before is this!"-and Il Duce held up ambidextrously a rifle in one hand and a book in the other...
...tell you?and you know I keep my promises?that next winter there will be more work and more help for all the people of Italy. The watchword will be 'durate' [carry...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...
Today the watchword of "Old Paul"-repeated in nearly all his public addresses amid tremendous applause-is this noble and useful platitude: "Ordnung muss sein!" ("There must be order...