Word: honored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor the late great Bob La Follette, Frank Murphy last week beckoned Wis consin back to the New Deal.* Said...
...Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him. That capable soldier-diplomat was dispatched to Brazil after authoritarian-minded Goés Monteiro began toasting the discipline, glory and honor of the German Army and had accepted an invitation to review Nazi troops. Last week the U. S. War Department, announcing its plans to toast Goes Monteiro this week, disclosed that instead of returning via Rome and Berlin he will fly directly home in a U. S. bomber...
...reverent students. When it was being built, they mocked its "vulgarity," stood a fraternity initiate on the empty pedestal for a whole day with a cigar in his hand. Duke's President William Preston Few had the statue put up anyway, proclaimed himself proud to "do honor to [Buck's] good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
...French writer André Gide once sourly said: "It is impossible to imagine a Frenchman reaching middle age without getting syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...cannot. Especially when one of the men released is a scholar of the calibre of Theodore Spencer who has just been accorded the unprecedented honor of being the first American ever called to a permanent English Lectureship at Cambridge University. And others of equal promise are being relieved of the important burdens which they bear in their departments...