Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again, and probably has, at the incoherent paragraph written in his honor. Shades of his Mathematical System...
...knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...
...passion and prejudice of the hour my mistakes are magnified and my achievements are minimized, I shall find consolation in the fact that I am not the first Governor who has had to suffer the same penalty as the price of political honor...
...occasion was a banquet at Toronto to honor Lieutenant Governor Harry Cockshutt of Ontario, shortly to retire. White-bosomed and sleek-shouldered. Premier Ferguson rose to address the King Emperor, personified by His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor. "Canadians," said Mr. Ferguson, "consider outworn the system which now denies to them the right of accepting fitting honors from His Majesty the King. . . . While Canadian politicians should unquestionably still be barred from accepting such honors, there are many other Canadians who deserve and should receive what only the Sovereign can bestow. . . . I hope that the Dominion Government will soon withdraw...
...Incidently the whole approach to Literature is placed on a broader basis. Another very healthy and hopeful sign in the new plan is that the main emphasis is laid on the student's showing in the examinations written and oral and no longer on the mere accumulation of honor grades in courses...