Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teatime, Mrs. Coolidge and son John received them informally at No. 15 Dupont Circle; in the evening, applauded them generously from a box in Continental Hall. President Coolidge, no music-lover, did not attend the concert. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge, colorfully attired in a dark red suit, was guest of honor at a luncheon of the National Women's Press Club of Washington. For table decorations, she sent pink roses from the White House greenhouses. ¶ When invited to spend his summer vacation in Idaho, President Coolidge let it be known that he thought Idaho too far west. This limits...
...this day, the Irish police are called "peelers" and the British police are called "bobbies" in honor of their founder. So greatly do Britishers respect their p_olice that citizens swelled with indignation last week when the Chief Commissioner of London Police charged "bobbies" with being discourteous and inefficient. One nice old lady accosted a "bobby," presented him with half a crown, said: "Now, don't you listen to what anybody says...
...hope as to the course of future events, was transformed by headliners into a proclamation of immediate world revolution. Headline to the contrary, one and not "more Yanks"2 were killed: Headlines to the contrary, no white women were "outraged"3 in the sense of an assault on their honor...
...warm-hearted Czecho-slovakians, including a few Roman Catholic priests, celebrated a, national holiday in honor of John Huss-the greatest religious reformer between John Wyclif and Martin Luther. Thereupon, Pope Pius XI grew vexed at such heretical festivities, broke off relations with Czechoslovakia, recalled the Papal Nuncio, while Prague recalled its Minister at the Vatican. Last week the Papal heart grew warm. A message hustled from Rome to the Czechoslovakian Episcopate, accepting Czechoslovakian reasons for participation in the Huss celebration, hoping that a reconciliation could soon be reached. Many Czechs are Roman Catholics, but they are also Bohemians...
...Bill Mehlhorn, dour Bobbie Cruickshank, swart Gene Sarazen, with many another expert, professional wielder of wood and iron. They were to compete in the Southern Open Golf Tournament, suddenly of great importance because of record purse. They hoped with fervor for money; they also hoped for the almost unattainable honor of beating Bobbie Jones, amateur...