Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...having the time of his life putting Salida on the map. Grateful to Salida, he has spurned offers to go elsewhere. On the walls of his office (a little red-brick cottage) hang two pictures of the $3,000,000 Foshay Tower. He still keeps the motto which used to hang over his desk when he was a Northwestern reigning utilitycoon: Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
...exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...
...next door. The mothbitten stuffed caribou head, which has trailed the professors since they first met in the chapel of University Hall, was installed over the mantel. And the traditional stodginess (which once caused a History 1 section man to propose "Slow, slow, inconceivably slow" as the club's motto) was also transferred to the new quarters. Younger instructors, therefore, still found the Square cafeterias more reasonable and the undergraduate Houses more congenial. Few of them sought membership; and the large clubhouse was usually dark and empty except for two or three professors emeriti who each evening debated Phoenician punctuation...
...store sold three suits instead of the usual one hundred and fifty. Little conveniences, like fifty-yard line seats to football games, cashing checks, and bailing valuable sinners out of jail, all serve to keep the tailors and their "church school" clientele "a nice congenial group." This "congenial group" motto is the real secret of the custom tailor. It is a group made up of boys who have known each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them...
...Club's motto is "De best stuurli staan an walk," which translated into white man's language, means approximately"the best pilots stand on the shore." There is a plan afoot to give lectures on the niceties of side walking kibbitzing...