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WHEN WORDS AND PHRASES ARE
JEWELS

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When used at the opportune mo-
ment words and phrases have not
only had most ringing effect at the
time but have been more or less pc.
tential all through the ages.
The die is cast said julius Caesar,
as he crossed the Rubicon and the
phrase is still with US.
After crossing that famous stream,
meeting and vanquishing his enemies
at the battle of Pharsalia, his laconic
message sent back to Rome electri-
fed them as nothing else would have
done.
.Vedi, vidi, vici."
Il saw, / met, conquered is the
English translation, and it had whole
dictionary full of meaning.
Standing under the shadow of the
Pyramids, addressing his soldiers, Ma
poleon said:
Soldiers, you are about to fight
the rulers of Egypt and raising his
hand high in the air and forming his
troops into separate squares to meet
the assault: from the SUBMITS of
yonder pyramids forty centuries be-
hold your
His appeal was not in vain and soon
the Marmelukes were put to flight.
Il shall fight it out on this line
if it takes all summer was General
Grants decisive and laconic utterance.
which illustrated his stolid indiffer-
ence and bulldog tenacity.
Give me liberty or give me DEATH,
shouted Patrick Henry in the Virginia
house of Burgesses. 1t burnt its way
through that audience like a thunder
bolt and proved to be the spark that
kindled the fires that swept through
the colonies eliminating in war and
victory.
Where is Jackson?v asked his com
mander when the tide of battle began
to waver.
There he stands replied General
Bee, like stone wall." and today
the praise encircles his tomb.
Escaping mines and submarines
and safely crossing the Atlantic with
his army of two million young Amer
leans, fired with ardor and impetuosity.
General Pershing, standing beside the
grave of the beloved French soldier
who had rendered signal help to the
Colonies in their hour of peril, rever-
emily exclaimed:
Lafayette, we are here!'
1t quickly freshioned the dropping
spirits of the allied armies and the
advance of the German hosts was
stayed
lnoccuous dessessitude, fit the
times in which the phrase was coined
by President Cleveland as no other
phrase would have done so perfectly,
and 'watchful waiting coined by
President Wilson's fertile vocabulary.
described our attitude towards Mexi-
co as column proclamation of high
sounding platitudes would have failed
to do.
What lasting reputation was won
by Henry of Navarro when at the
opening of the famous battle of Ivrey
as rallying cry he said to his sol
diers:
Children. if the colors fall rally
to my white plumes-you will find
them always on the road to honor
and victory
oh, Liberty. cried Madame Roland,
as she courageously ascended the
scaffold: What crimes are commits
ted in thy name.'
Reading over the court proceedings
here in our land of the free and the
brave how truthfully could her de-
sparing cry be pharaphased by say
ing: oh. Justice, what crimes are
committed in thy name and are lodged
at your door,
Il regret, said the dauntless Nathan
Hale, who volunteered to perform
perilous undertaking when facing exc
cution that have but one life to
give my country
Over the Alps lie Italy, was some
what sordid, but it did not fall on
deaf ears to a hungry army!
There was one English monarch
who was accused of never having
said a bright thing or ever having
done foolish one yet how many
others not alone in England but else
where. BY flashes of wit at the oppor-
tune moment, personafied their char
acter and by noble utterance enabl-
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