Word: dishonorables
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This system is the creation of the Corps. It is handled solely from within. The punishment for deliberate dishonor is the silence. To the Corps the man is dead. He moves in complete dissociation from all other men. His one recourse is to resign, for the silence will follow him all his life. He will be a marked man. He has had his trial he has been fairly judged, and there is no appeal...
...than approval; and since she loved the Duke, she ended the agreement with her first lord. But the Duke of Warrington had an old flame whose husband died at just this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped by the absurd codes and customs of the class in which she had been unwanted, Author Lonsdale showed instead, and very prettily, that the actress was the finest gentleman of them...
Turning to politics, he added: "We should rid ourselves of the camouflage of diplomats. Camouflage was conceived in deceit and born in dishonor. It lies both by inference and directly...
...between her and the President. She tries to make him see that his friends are grafters and crooks, but he refuses to believe that they would do anything to harm him. The scandals break into the open; the President's big heart breaks with his pals' dishonor. After one last poker revel with them, he returns to the White House and takes poison, thinking it is a sleeping potion. He dies slowly, mourned by the nation-a martyr and a hero. President Coolidge is reported to be annoyed at the book. And well he might be, on reading...
...honor and glory with Field Marshal von Hindenburg and-I dare proclaim it all aloud- heightened his glory. Today my German heart aches when I see how the Field Marshal is sacrificing that glory, and it is sacrificed indeed if his name stands under the embodiment of shame and dishonor [the Locarno treaty]. Better to surrender one's position than glory, honor and one's own great past. That is the German way, and even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement. If the President...