Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are, in the second place, four very tangible advantages which the Federation has offered at this Congress. Commissions sat on Friday afternoon averring to discuss the curriculum, teachers, athletics, student government, and the honor system. Instead of adopting half baked resolutions, approving this and condemning that, permanent committees were set up or recommended to study the curriculum, teachers and student government and report at the congress next December. This ensures so far as possible scholarly, effective research. Second, a news service, which has already been initiated, will be developed into an effective center of feature articles by men such...
...situation symptomatic of a national condition? The Iowa State Banking Department hastened to make up a bulletin: "The condition is purely local. It is simply a concerted action on the part of the banks to stop continued unwarranted withdrawals." After a few days some of the banks reopened to honor demands for withdrawing money...
...last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient to bend her honor into the lie that made Sally say, "I will not," proud and slender at the altar in her royal blue broadcloth riding habit with glass buttons...
...which these lives and episodes are related and the settings of chivalric South Carolina worked up behind them do vast credit to their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...
...least the organization termed the Book-of-the-Mouth Club is possessed of a fearless Seleering Committee. Twice has the honor of being the best book been awarded to authors formerly unknown to literature. The judges including such people as Henry Seidel Canby, Heywood Broun, and Christopher Morley, are also evidently good precursors of popular taste, for almost every prize winner eventually reaches the list of best sellers...