Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salisbury last week, Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs had plenty of isolation, but it was not altogether splendid. On orders of Prime Minister Ian Smith, all phone lines to Sir Humphrey's official residence were cut. Then, in rapid succession, his armed police guard was withdrawn, his blue-tarbooshed honor guards tossed their bedrolls into a police truck and were driven away, and his butlers, gardeners, cooks and maids disappeared. His chauffeur even drove off with his official Rolls-Royce...
Thomson was also determined to have a peerage. When he discovered that Canadians are not eligible for that honor, he became a British citizen and kept badgering everyone he knew in British politics, including Prime Minister Macmillan. Finally, last year he got his peerage and decided to call himself Lord Thomson of Fleet. Why had he gone to all the trouble? "It was the best way to prove to Canadians that I'm a success...
...guest of honor at last week's luncheon meeting of the Cleveland Touchdown Club seemed the soul of mild-mannered urbanity. He broke his rolls before he buttered them. He politely said nothing about the veal cutlet. He refolded his napkin neatly when he was through. He wore a charcoal herringbone suit, and he buttoned his vest all the way-so only his tailor knew for sure about those 17-inch biceps, that 46-inch chest and that 32-inch waist. But the banquet toastmaster was not fooled for a second. "Gentlemen," he firmly announced, "I give you Superman...
Galbraith's address was the third of the Douglas Rights Peace Lectures given every three years in honor of Rev. Charles Rights '16. The last lecture was delivered by Ernest R. May, professor of History...
...Crocker Award, established in 1949 in honor of a popular 155-pound end on the 1933 team, killed in World War II, is voted on by the team's lettermen; the LaCroix award recipient is selected by a committee of coaches and friends of William P. LaCroix, who died in 1950 from injuries in World...