Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington nine men in solemn black robes met after a two weeks' recess to hand down weighty decisions; then, as they adjourned in honor of once fiery Joseph McKenna, their robes seemed to take on an even blacker shade. They were his honorary pallbearers. All of them, save the youngest (Harlan Fiske Stone), had sat on the Supreme Court bench with Justice McKenna. Impetuous, be had often vexed them. Irish, he had made them love...
...four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week...
Last year the New York Sun gave an elaborate dinner in New York city in honor of the eleven collegians selected by the Sun as "the All-American Football Team of 1925." This year the Sun proposes to give a similar dinner for the eleven students whom that newspaper shall select as an "All-American Team for 1926." In our judgment this project ought to be abandoned; no such dinner should be given...
...number of players in this game, but judging from the size of the court, it must have been considerable. A solemn sacrifice preceded each game, which had in itself some religious significance which is unknown. The puttime of the ball through the ring was regarded as a high honor...
Because of a new ruling that all magna cum laude men are elected automatically to the Phi Beta Kappa group, four more men were taken on this year than have been accepted in the past. These specially elected honor men will not get their Phi Beta Kappa keys until the year in which they actually get their degree, regardless of the class with which they are affiliated...