Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arthur Brisbane, General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hugh Walpole, General Pershing, Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...Philadelphia the dress trousers of Prince Nicholas were delayed in reaching the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford. The Prince was accordingly delayed in attending a banquet in his mother's honor. When he reached the banquet door it had been locked to keep out the curious and the guard professed to have no key. Prince Nicholas sought the main dining room, passed through the kitchen, emerged into the banquet hall...
...representatives of the 48 States assembled in her honor at the Biltmore Hotel. Manhattan, Queen Marie distributed, "as a surprise," 48 sheets of ruled paper with a blue cross on the upper right-hand corner. On each Her Majesty had written with bold upright pen strokes an apostrophe to a state, had signed "MARIE...
...present volume is by no such glutton, but by his contemporary gourmand, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, perhaps the most refined, curious and diverting commentator upon taste who ever lived. Balzac did him the honor to model his own Physiology of Marriage upon the Physiology of Taste of Brillat-Savarin. An unabridged translation of the latter work, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Brillat-Savarin, with an introduction by fastidious Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, is by way of being a delicate effort to elevate U. S. civilization...
...Captain of the 1925 football team and Marshal of his graduating class, will lead the discussions on Athletics. Miss Dorothy Mason, President of the Student Government Association of Wellesley, and C. G. Gleaves, prominent undergraduate at the University of Virginia, will preside at the committee meetings concerning the Honor System and Student Government...