Word: hon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remembrances of my boyhood were brought back to me by your quoting of the recollections of the Hon. George Leader's father, Mr. Guy Leader. He reminisced as to how he had to assist in poultry husbandry of the baby chicks and "to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse [TIME, Nov. 15]." Like him, I too often watched my mother perform a similar operation, [but] the only parasite my dear Republican mother was ever able to extract from the chick's throat was gapeworms...
Exultant left-wingers outdid themselves in singing praises of China's new bosses. The Rt. Hon. J. Harold Wilson, M.P. and former Socialist president of the Board of Trade, had a pleasant chat at Geneva with Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, reported back: "As we said goodbye, and he stood waving at the door of his villa . . . I felt we had been meeting one of the world's leading statesmen . . . who knows what he wants for his country. A man. in fact, we can deal with...
Judges for the Princeton debates were the Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins '12, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Francis W. Hatch '19, president of the New York advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne, and Ralph Lowell '12, president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation and the Lowell Institute...
...Andros set by joining the Lighthouse Club. The club's initiation fee of $500, dues of $300 a year and minimum American plan rate of $50 a day are only the low hurdles. The applicant must also pass the scrutiny of the board of governors: Wenner-Gren, the Hon. Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, Eunice, Lady Oakes, Sir Oswald Bancroft and seven other Mayfair and Florida social arbiters. If he gets by without a blackball, and would like to settle on the island, the new member may then sign up for a homesite-at $10,000 an acre...
...knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...