Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Towners-A South Bend grumpy misunderstands New York honor and is funny...
With the "national honor" of France thus challenged by the Turk, a crisis of moment loomed...
...this route, His Highness was informed, seven Italian guides and a priest ascended the Matterhorn in honor of a Catholic "Holy Year" (1901), Pious, they planted a cross and celebrated Mass on the Hag's topmost excrescence (14,780 feet). Intrigued, Prince Chichibu snap-shotted the spot on which was performed this (to him) heathen act of faith...
...impressionable clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being allied with the world's champion, will stand docilely in one corner of the court until called to do a little serving or to pick up some balls. Vincent Richards and Richard Norris Williams were playing together again; they seemed perhaps the best native team...