Word: hon
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...Work for Money. When Author Mitford (the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd) heard of Ross's paper, she dashed off an essay for Encounter elaborating his theme (her chief U distinction: "The purpose of the aristocrat is most emphatically not to work for money"). To this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while...
...Austin Hall, the judges will be Charles P. Kindleberger, professor of Economics at M.I.T.; Everett J. Burtt, Chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University; and the Hon. Charles Brytell, Judge of the Appellate Division of the First Department of New York. Following the debate, the speakers and their friends will attend a reception at the Hotel Commander...
...Hon. Irwin D. Davidson, Congressman from New York City and member of the New York Bar, will discuss the role of the "Lawyer in Politics" tonight before an informal open meeting of the Pre-Law Society, in Leverett House Junior Common Room...
Diamond, O'Neil, and Bryden will defend the Negative against Princeton in the Ames Courtroom of Langdell Hall, with the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, presiding. Thompson, Frederickson, and King will debate the Affirmative at Yale, at the same time...
...Democratic Party in Massachusetts has had an excellent record in civil rights. The late Maurice J. Tobin, former Governor and later Secretary of Labor under President Truman, was a prime mover in the creation of the state Fair Employment Practices Commission, while the Hon. James L. O'Dea, Jr., House Majority Whip, led the fight to abolish segregation in the state National Guard. The civil rights stand adopted at our convention called upon the Massachusetts delegates to the Democratic National Convention "to fight for a strong Civil Rights plank in the party's National Platform...