Word: proverbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...
...wine-growing France, Professor Maurice Loeper of the Sorbonne last week completed a study purporting to prove that wine assists digestion, contains vitamins, radioactive properties. The finished Loeper document is an expansion of the famed Louis Pasteur proverb: "Wine is the most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages." Into many a language will the document be translated by Office International du Vin, an anti-prohibitionist organization which claims it is "a sincere friend of temperance and a bitter enemy of alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense...
...naturally an important one. It has numerous implications, depending on the use to which the dining halls in the new Vanderbilt Square are put. The varying interpretations as to what it will imply, however, are as confusing as they are exasperating. All of which brings up the old proverb that if a dog bites a man, it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, it is news. The man has evidently bitten the dog in this case. Sheff, is to have a House Plan, but the news or lack of it has been so completely disconcerting, that...
...ability to apply mathematical formulae to the science of the diamond, while exhorting our team-mates with quotations from the scriptures and the classics to play better ball. Harvard's bitter chalico may perhaps be sweetened by her realization that she must adhere more rigidly to that musty proverb that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." --Yale News...
...wind", says the age-old proverb, "which blows nobody good," and the Vagabond was once again struck with the truth of the words when, in the course of his daily perigrinations he came upon a most diverting bit of comment. Curiously enough, it was dated FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Washington, Stipulation No. 339; and was in brief an agreement to prohibit the printing of fraudulent advertising...