Word: mottos
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...sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
Died. John Frederick Seiberling, 73, son of the late Frank A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., who lived by the motto Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we're alive, let us live"), who rejected the business world to spend his life building a large private library and traveling; of cancer; in Akron, Ohio...
...phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana elk, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia turkey, and antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Boykin's all-for-love motto was bantered about the banquet hall. Everybody had a great time, and jolly Frank was delighted to fork over...
...Below a flaming cross that appeared in the noonday sky above Rome, Constantine saw the motto, In hoc signo vinces (By this sign conquer), which eventually led to his conversion to Christianity...
...choose." Tory Strategist Macleod is confident that if the party sinks low enough in by-elections, it will bounce back in time for the general election that Macmillan is expected to call some time next year. Said he: "How should Conservatives act now? I offer you the Clan Macleod motto: 'Hold Fast...