Word: honored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only public opinion in favor of war will take us in. The bankers, the dealers in death are secondary. Even the incidents on the high seas and the insults to national honor are secondary. Furthermore, these factors will be under more effective controls than they were in 1917. For there to be war there must be high-charged hysteria and the blind desire to fight. Without these we remain neutral...
...diplomat, dramatist (Amphytrion 38), novelist and profound student of national characteristics, Author Giraudoux came out of World War I a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Typical Giraudoux observation of current interest to U. S. readers: "The Americans . . . always fight themselves. When they were English, they fought the English, as soon as they were Americans they fought each other. When their culture became sufficiently Germanic, they fought Germany. The first American who took a prisoner in 1917 was named Meyer. So was his prisoner...
September 3 (Sunday). In Berlin at 9 a. m. Sir Nevile gave the German Government this message: "I have the honor . . . to inform you that unless not later than 11 a. m. . . . today . . . satisfactory assurances have been given by the German Government . . . a state of war will exist between the two countries." Daladier informed Hitler that France would consider herself at war at 5 p. m. unless the Germans gave up their war against Poland...
...sort, and with a ceaseless supply of news bulletins from the press associations ticking in to the studios, radio, with no presses to turn, was consistently first to the listening U. S. with every jot of news worth reporting (and much that was not). It even earned that highest honor of the news craft-by-lines in the press itself for radio gathered news that press correspondents missed or were unable to transmit because of commandeered cable & communication facilities...
...past two months Ta Mei Wan Pao's offices have been guarded from terrorists. Fortnight ago, in an article on terrorism, Editor Chu wrote: "Everybody must die some time. It is an honor to die for China." One day last week, as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek, Chu Hsin-kung was so honored, by a single shot in the head...