Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village Brusque Benito was greeted by enthusiastic natives who held in his honor a baby show, then a beauty show. Of both bambinos and signorinas II Duce was judge...
...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
...convivial Merchant Tailors, banqueting in London last week, it seemed that the above words were actually uttered by Guest-of-Honor Sir Nicholas Gratten-Doyle, M. P., and Director of Northern Newspapers Co., Ltd. But friends of Sir William doubted. They knew that he knows his Bible. Therefore it seemed impossible that he could have so thoroughly scrambled the Genesis story of the fig leaves and the suits of skins...
Pious Merchant Tailors should honor no more fig leaf or apron of fig leaves, but rather the Lord God, as the true originator of their ancient profession...
...another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman family the Atlanta school was founded...