Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mailloux, honorary president of the commission, refused to speak until the gallant Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which the bespangled audience?Anita Loos and Father Duffy, Al Jolson and His Honor the Mayor, and many another more or less notable who had paid $27.50 to be there? crowded out into the lobby to ogle one another...
...player, except Dealer, touch a card during the deal and thereby cause a card to be faced, making a new deal compulsory, the side opposed to the offender may add 50 points to its honor score." (Brand...
...Honor values: simple honors in all suits and No Trump-30; four honors divided, in all suits and No Trump-40; five suit honors divided 2 and 3-50; four suit honors in one hand-80; five suit honors divided 4 and 1-90; all honors in one hand-100. One or two honors held by a side are not counted. (Brand new, but in wide vogue before the new code was officially published...
...father's business, he revived in 1887 and led the American Copyright League, originated by his father, George Palmer Putnam, in 1851. In 1891, this organization secured the passage in Congress of the present copyright code, an event France signalized by presenting Major Putnam with her Legion of Honor cross...