Word: honored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...
There are poles and polls. To Harry Flood Byrd, a first son, fell the almost feudal duty and honor of taking over Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr.'s position in Virginia politics. The father co-bossed the State with Representative Harry ("Hal") Flood, famed in Wilsonian days as chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The roads which Lady Astor so admired are but one of many testimonials to the business-likeness with which Governor Byrd has handled his heritage...
...occasion of your Imperial Highness's coronation. I have great pleasure in offering you most cordial congratulations on the signal honor which her Majesty the Empress has been pleased to bestow upon you." "George...
...correspondents Professor Tsubouchi beamingly confided, last week, that the Library which will honor himself and Shakespeare will be the only one in Japan devoted exclusively to books of the drama, and will contain a stage upon which students will enact from time to time the whole cycle of Shakespeare-Tsubouchi plays...
...Fosdick to the contrary, there is no longer the lure al honor in the activity at Harvard. There are too many influences at work to discourage the "big man" idea. The Harvard undergraduate whose activities have placed him in the sun is rather pitied by his friends for the time and the energy he spends on something which does not appear to prove anything. Perhaps in his own mind he is beginning to curse the sophomoric ambition that sent him out for this or that...