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Word: honorers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being pigs, even though everybody at Harvard knew they were good forward passers, and Princeton got excited. Princeton waited for Harvard to apologize, and Harvard waited for Princeton to get tired of waiting. Finally Princeton took the hint and just busted up the 'Big Three," saving Harvard's honor and dignity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As the Mid-West Sees Us | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...while she had the honor of being the first woman in history to cook for the gentlemen in White's Club until she resigned after calling an amorous nobleman "an old woodcock in tights." King Edward lavished on her gifts which only a sovereign could bestow with propriety upon a subject. "Brooches, bracelets and things" were her portion, and the Cavendish Hotel, which she still owns. She comes to the U. S. for two reasons-partly tohelp her publishers, and partly to sell some pre-Gobelin tapestries, showing the life of Constantine the Great, which have been part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Queen of Cooks' | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Hurlingham Club has the honor hereby to challenge the Polo Association of America for the international polo challenge cup, known as the Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...object of such a monument (a war memorial) is to render honor to the dead, to precerve their memory, and remind those who come after of their heroism. The advantage of a Church or chapel is that one enters it in a spirit of reverence, and a church, therefore, adds something to the solemnity of a memorial, and this en-enhances the object sought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POINTS MADE AND POLICIES DEFINED IN ANNUAL REPORT | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...willing to have a mountain named after him, even a small mountain. I can only believe the press. (Grace and I were never confidential although we both have spent our lives in or near Vermont.) But the press reports that there isn't a mountain high enough for such honor. I would amend that to say, didn't fear a war with the vested interests, that there isn't a mountain low enough...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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