Word: bestowal
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...Socialism," the exact title of which, and the name of the Author, the Vagabond has momentarily forgotten, would try the mettle of greater men than even Mr. Jones. A lover of Ireland, then, and a great horseman. H. A. Jones fully deserves the attention which Professor Murray is to bestow on him this morning...
...terrifying experience to be sure. He looked down upon the glories that only Tiffany, Macy's, or Pierre's can bestow on woman. The sparkling of the gems as they caught the light was like staring at some inverted heaven. Even as he looked the lights dimmed and the curtain went up on Lammermoor, the story of a Scottish clan unraveled in the best possible Italian. For fifteen minutes the Vagabond strove concientiously to construct the story. He tried to recall his Scott to know avail, he tried to resurrect his Italian--with dire complications. At last he gave...
Honored. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...
...political ideal has always been to encourage private enterprise, to bestow upon it the earned rewards of brains and labor, and to keep open the door of opportunity. Here, I believe, is the key to material success. Here is a political ideal worth guarding and fighting...