Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen months ago this precocious young man, Dr. José Yanguas, then Professor of International Law at the University of Madrid, was given the portfolio of Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), an honor and a responsibility usually reserved for men of ripe age and riper experience...
...result of this illness, Professor Copeland will for the first time in 22 years be unable to give his annual reading at the Harvard Club of New York. On the first Friday of March, each year, the Charles Townsend Copeland Association attends a reading by the man in whose honor the association was founded. The reading which was to have taken place in the Nicholas Biddle Memorial Room last night, would have been followed by a banquet this evening...
Erwin Nathaniel Griswold 2L. of Cleveland, Ohio, was elected president of the Law Review for the coming year, at a recent meeting of the Board, thus receiving the Law School's highest honor. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1925 prior to entering the Law School, and succeeds Henry Jacob Friendly 3L. of Elmira...
...burgomaster could not speak at first but when he did, he spoke with a rush. He congratulated Fraulein Drazdorf. He blessed her and it was a great honor and he bowed again and kissed her hand. She was, he told her, the principal heir to a $5,000,000 estate left by her "American uncle," the late Mr. Scheffelbauer of Milwaukee. The burgomaster laid before her cable-despatches impressively authenticated...
...codes are dying and time trembles for a birth. Thus, the cedar forests remain but in places they are being leveled to pay gambling debts. Barons and landlords still shoot capercailzies at dawn and snipe at sunset, or shoot one another in grave "affairs of honor." Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing...