Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wasn't so very long ago that a certain actor wandered about New York City looking for a clergyman who would consent to honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
...informal but no more mysterious as to motive, was the Presidential candidacy, announced last week by Congressional colleagues with his foreknowledge, of U. S. Representative Cordell Hull from Tennessee, another Democrat. Candidate Hull, politically sagacious, understood the plan and made no statement. His friends, who sought to do him honor rather than to block another's path, displayed the Hull record: 37 years a lawyer, four years a judge, 20 years a Congressman, four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep Tennessee from fighting too bitterly in the primary...
Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...
...From Vermont comes a story, quite untrue, of Katie's shopping tour in Burlington, ending with her gracious remark to a clerk?'You may be interested to know that you have had the honor of waiting on Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
...Ashley Dukes, Britisher. The scenery, some said the finest factor of the evening, was designed by Norman Bel Geddes. Eminent English Players Leslie Faber and Madge Titheradge were specially imported. Fabulous sums were spent with a devoted flourish. Few men would take such risks. Mr. Miller escapes with every honor. The Patriot is a production to be respected deeply, to be seen by many people with great interest, to be regretted by many for a stateliness which robbed it of keen relish...