Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gave him the button of our group, which bears upon it our motto, "Hero or Zero". I gave him the Y.A.A. armband. He took them, but never wore them. Once he cuddled up to me and asked, "When are we going to have our first parade?" A suggestion from me that he get ready for the parade by putting on a red shirt made him look sick. When I saw how green he turned I gave up hope of marking a storm-trooper out of him. I had been looking for a hero, and I had found...
...founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...
Such a commander is congenial to the Allied motto in this war: Waste No Lives. In World War I, Canada put 595,441 men under arms, sent 418,052 overseas, lost 62,594 dead, in a total of 218,433 casualties. This time the emphasis for Canada will be on airmen, not infantry and artillery. Last week the first squadron of the new Canadian Air Force to see action was selected. Nucleus: the City of Toronto Squadron, supplemented by pilots from east and west Canada. Commander: Squadron Leader Wilbur Van Vliet, 35, of Winnipeg, famed footballer...