Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marcus Garvey number of TIME, June 11, 1923, you so kindly sent me. Thank you. It served the good purpose of truth telling to an intelligent but ignorant colored cook, valuable servant to me. Educating Negroes is difficult -all praise to TIME for timely help. Honor and glory to TIME ! Keep on with footnotes. . . . JEAN M. C. PATTEN Washington...
Rising, assumedly with relief, the Herr President strode to the onetime Königsplatz, recently re-christened Platz der Republik. There the Presidential Guard of Honor stood, ramrod-backed, eyes front...
...creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli and Author Giuseppe Ungaretti, both Italians of note. They desired to adjust a minor point of honor by the duello. But a Fascist decree forbade. What should they do? Philosopher-dramatist Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords. . . . At the garden party last week, Signor Pirandello announced that to divert his guests...
...called to explain more or less formally that he was about to fly across the Atlantic, starting from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The Man. In uniform, Captain Fonck is heavily encrusted with medals, palms and citations, as befits the youngest (aged 31) officer of the Legion of Honor, the "D'Artagnan of the Air." None shot down more planes than he, either during one day (6 for Fonck, with but 10 bullets each) or during the whole war (75 for Fonck, the first 32 without permitting a single bullet-hole in his own plane). His long light hair lies...
...first time in history the Legion of Honor has been awarded to a U. S. member of the theatrical profession. Last week, in a grave oak room whose windows stared out at the Manhattan sky above the traffic of Broadway, Maxine Mongendre, Consul General of France, pinned a bit of ribbon on the breast of Marcus Loew, showman. Mr. Loew, of "Loew, Inc.," became a showman twenty years ago in much the same fashion that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear...