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Word: honorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Cocolobo Bay Club, millionaire retreat on a Florida key. He met many Kansans at a reception given in his honor by S. B. Rohrer. old Topeka resident, now promoting real estate in Florida. He was the attraction that brought 300 men to another reception, at Harvey S. Firestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis's Junket | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cinemanipulation | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Secretary of War Good pinned on the medal. Mr. Baker made one last wriggle of modesty by saying: "I deeply appreciate the honor. . . . However, I do not consider that I am personally being decorated but feel rather that the decoration is being conferred upon me as a representative of the War Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baker's D. S. M. | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy. One of the most fetching of these pictures (see below), shows her wearing the collar of an officer in the Legion of Honor, while across the scarlet bosom of her mess jacket dangle the British D.S.O.; the Star of Mons, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Callipygian Captain | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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