Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battle Monuments Commission wants, itself, to pick and choose all the monuments to be erected by Americans on French battlefields. It wishes to keep down the number of monuments, lest the U.S., which can expensively honor her dead, erect so much granite and marble and bronze on the battlefields of France that it will look to future generations as if it were France that lost 120,000 men in the War, and America that sacrificed...
...dinner was originally set for March instead of May?March 31, Mr. Hammond's birthday. It was postponed for the convenience of the guest of honor. But the postponement enabled the preparation for presentation of a bound volume of the messages which came from all over the world on the original date?messages from the President and Vice President, from the Chief Justice and two other Justices of the Supreme Court, from eight members of the Cabinet and innumerable ex-members, from eleven Senators, from General Pershing and the late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from...
...once the vast golden coach in which Louis XIV sometimes dined, will be known as "Rue Rockefeller." Members of the Versailles Municipal Council grateful to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for his gift of $1,000,000 (TIME, June 9, 1924) to restore the Chateau of Versailles, decided thus to honor him last week...
...Goethe s tragedy. Mephistopheles made Faust live on, enticed him with promises of pleasures, with visions of fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene was the same?a repentant maiden condemned for infanticide, the tortured offender dragged relentlessly away by Mephistopheles, and Marguerite carried away high into the sky by white, white angels...
...personal and human problems of his students. This was undoubtedly one of the chief elements in his popularity among all those who knew him. It was felt by the sponsors of the new project, which is to lessen the difficulties of married graduates, that the plan should honor the name of a man whose interests were in similar problems of his students...