Word: garters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King appointed ex-Premier Lord Oxford and Asquith a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the place of the recently deceased Lord Milner (TIME, May 25). Lord Oxford is the third living ex-Prime Minister to be so honored, the other two being Lords Rosebery and Balfour. The Order of the Garter, created in 1349 by Edward III, is the highest decoration† in the Commonwealth...
...Manhattan, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments...
...having a year before returned from Egypt, he resigned, was awarded the Most Noble Order of the Garter for his illustrious services and, in the same month, married the widow of Lord Edward Cecil...
...animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...good news from Ghent to Aix in the recent Senatorial fight over Warren's cabinet appointment will surely become history. There is a universal appeal in the thought of the picturesque President of the Senate abruptly terminating his slumbers; hastily adorning himself amid gentle remarks to an elusive garter or collar-button; writhing in a taxi with crimson face and twitching fingers: and addressing soothing epithets to a conscientious traffic-cop; bounding, three at a time, up the Capitol steps, slithering through its polished corridors, and catapulting himself at last into the turbulent Senate-chamber,--only to find the battle...