Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bossy" is the original apostle of progress. When the old shade trees of a colonial are in the way of a filling station site, they must come down. The world moves on, and those who obstrud its progress can be converted to boosterism in the manner of His Honor. He was arrested afterwards, but not before as he modestly acknowledged in his inaugural address, had, "bounced his first off the then Mayor...
Guatemala City. Through the streets of a 400-year-old town a gay white float is passing by, "The Spirit of St. Louis," made all in flowers in honor of the guest. The real Spirit is lodged in an open hangar guarded by barefoot Indian soldiers. In the city Col. Lindbergh is making his grave, honest speeches. He is the city's first adopted son; receiving a medal engraved with the national bird, the quetzal...
...midday last week, in the banquet hall of the Central Trust Co., Chicago, there was a banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because...
...last week, by M. Jean Chiappe, the Prefect of Police of Paris. With firm wisdom M. le Préfet ordered his gendarnes to take into custody every vagrant. Soon, in warm Paris jails, the needy were served hot soups and stews which they could accept without loss of honor. When the weather moderated they were released...
...musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing...