Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every tenet of the Spanish code of honor was carefully observed, last week, by Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera as, with practiced hand, he suppressed?or seemed to suppress?another of Spain's semi-annual revolutions...
...know what that means!" exclaimed Senor Sanchez Guerra bitterly, and a few hours later he submitted quietly to arrest, saying blandly "I returned to my country simply as a traveler." At once General Girona offered his prisoner fruit, cakes and sherry, after which he saw him with all honor to a cell...
...while Masaryk and Benes were working for Czechoslovak independence in Allied countries, during the War, Svehla remained in what now is Czechoslovakia but then was Austria, superintending from within the struggle for independence which Masaryk and Benes carried on from without. Such a man deserves the highest, most exceptional honor ? which he received last week. Always close-mouthed and secretive, Dr. Svehla probably was glad that the world press almost totally ignored his passing, last week...
...12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
Readers of the Christian Herald were not surprised to learn that their weekly had chosen to honor Bishop Cannon. The Christian Herald, too, trains its cannons against the wets. It prints High-and-dry editorials such as the following: "The Christian Herald is in this Prohibition fight to the finish. . . . The minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison...