Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Review Election is High Honor...
...returns to the printed page. His morals are far above those of the countess. She could not brook a lie; he cannot--brook a drink. And when, with courtesy and the savoir faire of the "old school" a gentleman and colonel serves cocktails at a dinner party in his honor, Smedley blushes and rushes to the duty of having him reprimanded by the higher powers. All this, by the way, happens in spite of the fact that the courteous and courtly colonel has an excellent record as a soldier. The point is that being a Devil Dog, he lacks...
...Hall entered into the enviable role of Captain, forgetful, superhuman, old gargoyle of a man, with extraordinary understanding and carried the play on his shoulders in many places. The second character part of note, that of Mazzini Dunn, an elusive, kindly, never-get-rich old fellow who had the honor to be Ellie's father, was admirably filled by Horace Pollock. And Ralph Roberts stole a large slice of the second act from under the noses of the rest of the cast with his Cockney dialect and the little playlet all his own, a gift from Shaw to the confusion...
...translation of an article in a recent Spanish newspaper. Professor Ford who has been the active head of the American University Union in Paris this year was in Spain for a short time during the winter. The occasion for this article was a dinner given in Professor Ford's honor by D. Americo Castro of the Centro de Estudios Historicos in Madrid...
...honor to be Premier of France during the anxious days of Verdun, and that terrible massacre filled me with such horror that I swore if I ever again were Premier I would apply my mind and heart and all my forces to avoid the recurrence of such a catastrophe...