Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing from his home town-"A prophet is not without honor, etc." Not so, Senator Willis as a student in the University here had the love and respect of his teachers and all who knew him best. His unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy was recognized by the faculty and students as nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress...
...officials implicated had speculated privately in French Francs. The Commission even went so far as to deny positively that Foreign Office information had been made the basis of these speculations. What appeared to be the culprits' real crime was that they had transgressed the unwritten code of honor & respectability of the Civil Service. Mr. Gregory, with a salary of ?1,200 per year had mysteriously transgressed to the extent of making speculative moves in the aggregate amount of ?1,000,000. Sir Miles Lampson, the Minister to China, had barely dabbled. Intermediate between these twain were three Foreign Office...
...emergence of Canton as a separate Chinese Government was signalized, last week, when the British Governor of Hongkong, Sir Cecil Clementi, received a visit from Dictator Li Chai-sum of Canton and accorded to him every honor. Sir Cecil then prepared to return the Dictator's visit by announcing that he would go himself in full & formal array to Canton...
...have responded to the introduction of the presiding officer of the Commencement Day exercises have included many names that were to become famous. Scholars, historians, playwrights, statesmen, and even chief executives of the nation have thought it their first honor. Since 1642 Commencement Day parts have been spoken, a tradition that it is safe to say has no rival in the United States...
When questioned closely President Leatherbee admitted that the meeting had not gone smoothly. "There was one man who suggested that instead of acting the plays we rent the films from a ten cent picture palace, but I am proud to say that we vindicated the honor of the H. D.C. by immediate expulsion...