Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning became clear-he, Republican, was writing an endorsement of Mr. Wadsworth, Republican, by quoting the late Thomas R. Marshall, Democrat...
...occasion of this distinctly militarist demonstration was "Army and Navy Honor Day," recently concocted by German monarchists as an excuse for staging impressive ceremonies to keep alive Imperial fervor...
...Baron moved on; he had plans; he must honor Californians, Hawaiians; besides, he disliked publicity...
Fokker. At a dinner given by the Wright Aeronautical Co. in honor of Poleflyers Byrd and Bennett, up stood Anthony H. G. Fokker, Dutch designer of most of Germany's wartime planes, of the Pole-reaching Josephine Ford and many another efficient machine, to announce that he so believed in the U. S. as the chief flying nation of the future that he had determined to become a citizen, permanently coming over from the ranks of European engineers...
...change their surname, testifying that it brought them ridicule and embarrassment, retarding their social life. Mrs. Damm, their mother, was proved dead; Damm, their father, was "missing." After due deliberation the Damm sisters had elected to be-and were when they left court-Gormans, one and all, in honor of a favorite uncle...