Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrays delightfully the lurid Mrs. Amaranth, come home to Kiwanisport, N. Y., from Europe and worse. Uneasy as a bird of plumage roosting in a barnyard, she is most uneasy of all lest she be considered "on the shelf." Through three acts of easily forgettable humor she defends the honor of her sex appeal. Donald Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator, gold digs "the Governor" successfully- using...
...used to stay up late at night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he sees the novel through at least three mediums plus Otis Skinner. "The Honor of the Family", born a bon mot, dies a cliche. One must, however, respect the dead. Mr. Skinner, Miss Jessie Royce Landis are very kind pall-bearers. But why the funeral...
When an excellent actor grows old he grows sentimental, a trifle lazy. Mr. Skinner is growing old. So there is some reason for his leaving the donkey and the organ for the beaver and the cane of Colonel Phillipe, defender of the honor of the family and so many, many francs! Francs! There the Gallic flavor enters. One wonders if this should not be recommended to the business school. Not in many moons has the power of a franc appeared so vast...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of college in his Sophomore year...