Word: honored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt...
Once upon a time Queen Victoria thought she had made quite a good Page of Honor out of little Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby. The child seldom sniveled?a great point in his favor with Her Majesty?and presently he showed more smartness than most in fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...Heavyweight Champion, it was necessary to discover immediately who this should be. On investigation, it appeared that there was no one good enough to fill the position adequately. Dempsey who, judged by the eminently suitable criterion of gate receipts, had never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional boxing into a sport more spectacular than any since the wild animal shows of the late Roman Empire, was faced with a far more difficult task, that of preserving its pomp and magnitude...
...Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6,500 honor students of six colleges from graduation until June...