Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in his birthplace in South Coventry, Conn., citizens assembled to honor the 150th anniversary of his death. A message from President Coolidge was read...
...with the official hauteur of his potent brother (Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, one-time [1920-24] Ambassador to the U. S.,) Sir Eric Geddes said: "You are aware, gentlemen, that our new air service from England via Egypt to India will be inaugurated on Jan. 1. I have the honor to announce that Sir Samuel Hoare (British Secretary of State for Air) and Lady Maude (Sir Samuel's wife) will travel as passengers on the first of our regularly scheduled flights from Great Britain to India...
...Stockholm King Gustaf of Sweden gave a court dinner in honor of his niece* and Crown Prince Leopold, who had hastened thither last week. Raising high his glass, King Gustaf proposed and drank to the engagement a potent Swedish toast,† crying "Skal!" ("your health...
Dictator Kondylis of Greece, a typically, hard-boiled militarist whose agents have resorted more than once to poisoning to gain his ends, announced himself greatly troubled last week by aspersions publicly cast in his direction that he is playing politics. Pinked upon this nice point of military honor, General Kondylis forthwith dissolved the minute political party of which he was nominally the head, relaxed not one iota his dictatorial powers...
...breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily conducted. Thereupon Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia, the retiring chairman, was called upon to preside and the Council took up an innocuous matter-acceptance of a bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson proffered...