Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mass meeting held in Ripon, Wis., was the true party matrix. Historian William Starr Myers of Princeton is inclined to agree and adds the name of one Alban E. Bovay as instigator of the meeting. But, Jackson, Mich., and Kansas City, Mo., also advance claims for the historic honor. Last week President Coolidge favorably entertained a suggestion from Kansas Citizens that the Republican Party's 75th Anniversary be celebrated this year. The President did not, however, go so far as to agree that the celebration should be held in Kansas City's Convention Hall, scene of the Hoover nomination...
...East Room of the White House shimmered and twinkled with bright uniforms, emblems, medals, pomade. Two thousand were present. When it was over, Mrs. Coolidge leaned on the arm of the President, said farewell to scores of the guests. Thus, with a state reception in honor of the Army & Navy, ended the social program of the Coolidge administration...
...scroll has not yet been prepared. But it will be ready by Feb. 13, and then Bishop Cannon will receive it at a Manhattan dinner in his honor. It will be written by Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald, Protestant interdenominational weekly, circulation circa...
Editor High has hinted what the scroll will say. "It is not only because of Bishop Cannon's leadership but also because of the unselfishness of his leadership that the Christian Herald chose him for this honor. The wet interests reviled him. The wet press made him the brunt of its caricatures. But he never flinched...
...Rescue. Few scenarists have understood the literary methods of the late Joseph Conrad, or discovered until too late how his tales of adventure, seemingly straightforward enough, are complicated with struggles about something called honor. "Take out that honor, we can't have it in" exasperated directors declare at last, but when pencils scratch and honor disappears, Conrad has gone too. Blank spaces must be left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography...