Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that no one survived to make any claims to the honor...
...Butler telegraphed that he had never received any of Sinclair's Liberty bonds from Mr. Hays. At the same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that...
Several circumstances in the city of Rome demanded the Pope's attention. One was the solemn benediction performed, near the Forum, by an abbot and a troupe of assorted monks, upon a bevy of parked automobiles. Holy water was sprinkled upon the radiators of the cars in honor of Santa Francesca Romana, a patroness of motorists. The other circumstances were connected with Vatican Bond Issue, sold in the U. S., to finance the building of the College for the Propaganda of the Faith, potent Catholic Missionary institution. The Pope had summoned George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago to Rome...
...world turns green today in honor of that famous snake-destroyer St. Patrick. In those capitals of Ireland, Boston and New York, green clad parades will tie up traffic for untold hours, shopkeepers of all sorts will adopt a thick brogue in self-protection from belligerent green partisans, and the green flag for a day supercedes all others...
...even careful phrasing is soon garbled by the inferential methods of headline writers. By spreading thin the butter on their first loaf the Governing Board of the Union has rationalized the honor, and set a standard of importance for the awards that are to come...