Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Warren distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...
...course of a charming dissertation on the wines of France, outspoken Gastronome Reboux lately touched on the subject of champagne, France's "Wine of Honor...
...sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...
Champagne growers, outraged, vowed revenge in the name of France's Wine of Honor. It was hinted by Paris newspapers that M. Reboux had been discharged as political contributor of radical Paris Soir. In their combined majesty and awfulness the Syndicat du commerce des vins de Champagne and the Syndicat général des vignerons de la Champagne brought suit against the brash gastronome. Last fortnight the case was called before the civil tribunal of the Department of the Seine...
...Promoter Rickard at Madison Square Garden. Last week Promoter Carey visited him there. Unlike Schmeling, Uzcudun, a Basque woodchopper who wore shoes for the first time at the age of 24, is almost always noisy. He likes to sing and dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck nearer his foot than the log. Pauline Uzcudun, sister of Paulino, is also a Basque woodchopper and weighs...