Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although wheat rust may yet blight the harvest, Fascist editors hinted broadly last week that the tender sproutlings of Il Duce will potently mature until the Ministry of National Economy will delight to honor him with a prize awarded each year to the husbandman whose average yield of wheat per ara* shows the greatest percentage of increase over that of his neighbors...
...high honor was recently paid Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, when a large portrait of him was hung by the Northwestern University School of Law in the faculty room of the law library at Evanston. In this room are a number of other oil portraits of former Northwestern law professors...
Just as there is honor among thieves, so is there quarrelling among booksellers. The American Association of Booksellers has "viewed with alarm" the growing power of such groups as the Book-Of-The-Month-Club and the several organizations which have followed in the wake of its success. The objection is raised on the grounds that such procedure consultutes nothing but artificial stimulation, and that there are many equally deserving candidates which are doomed never to win popularity simply because they have not been officially recognized as being among the "best...
...laid away his saxophone in lavender and old lace, those interested may pause to inquire--just what is the destination of the Harvard Dramatic Club? As the sole survivor of non-musical theatricals in the University it has enviable opportunities to create for itself a public which shall honor it as the last remnant of a rich tradition. But those opportunities have yet to be fulfilled in accordance with their merits...
...many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly. Chief plaintiff (for the New York Hotel Men's Association) is George Sweeney of the Hotel Commodore, who holds: Apartment hotels are alienating the appetites of potential diners at regular hotels by providing kitchenette facilities. His Honor should stop such nefarious seductions by invoking state laws which require more light, ventilation, sanitary devices and fire precautions in tenement houses (i. e. apartments where cooking facilities are provided) than in hotels (where cooking in the rooms is illegal...