Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis for judging the eligibility of men for election was considered by the seven residential Seniors of the Society who did the voting this year. The tutorial reports of honor students not taking scientific courses were used to determine their character and general ability. Although high scholastic standing was, as usual, the most important factor for election, the reports qualified several men who would not have been considered scholastically eligible in previous years...
...postponement of date to Jan. 10. Mayor H. C. Meacham, bespectacled, cautious-eyed friend of the unfortunate Chipps, had admitted expending $15,000 in hiring prosecutors for the Norris trial, upon which discovery Judge George Hosey changed the location of court. Here was difficulty. San Antonio missed the honor by having too many resident Catholics, who, it is felt, might have some ground of annoyance against one who has never spared them with his tongue. Dallas and Houston were debarred, as the judge had heard that Mr. Norris had "experienced trouble" there. Austin was said to be too small...
...Eddie") Rickenbacker, War aviator, motor maker, might have said last week: "Before the War I was a champion auto-racer. During the War I was credited with 25 air victories, won the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms and a Legion of Honor membership. After the War I capitalized my fame by organizing the Rickenbacker Motor Co. in Detroit. My concern has just been forced into 'friendly' receivership to conserve assets for creditors. We have orders for 900 cars on hand and sufficient inventory to insure favorable results from this receivership...
...Saturday Night. Benavente's drama of a courtesan who ruled an empire, held it less dear than her daughter, was accorded the honor of opening the Civic Repertory Theatre season. A more tense, colorful-play could hardly have been selected. Wisely, Eva Le Gallienne guards against arousing suspicion that her theatre is "arty." Though the five tableaux call for much changing about of scenery, few in the audience left their seats after the curtains, because Miss Le Gallienne had provided a Russian Gypsy orchestra that can strum ten minutes into nothing...
...visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...