Word: dishonorables
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...action must be taken, then "summoned General Sarrail to report on conditions in Syria, at Paris." Competent observers opine that a "Civilian Governor" will replace the "Military High Commander in Syria"; and that under cover of this "change in policy" Sarrail will be got out of the way without "dishonor" and without offending his potent friends of the "Left." It is widely felt in France that "the tactlessness in handling Syrian affairs has been all but criminal...
...Manhattan. Fortune Gallo has convinced the U. S. public that it is not necessary to pay eight dollars for a seat in order to attend an opera. For half that sum, or a quarter of it, one can share in a holiday that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima...
...easy to dishonor dead emperors; I leave all those, including William II, to the Socialist member, who I feel has no grounds to condemn a Communist for praising a Roman since he donned a frock coat to attend the Hindenburg inauguration...
...Admiral was selected in 1918 to fulfill the baneful task of handing over the stricken Empire's fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when...
...little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon their zestful purpose of inspiration and guidance--, then athletics will...