Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mates. Aileen Pringle is a leading lady for whom many discerning persons can rouse little enthusiasm. Perhaps it is because she so often plays in poor pictures, this one for example. It is about an English girl who for convenience married an English peer, who finally won her love, honor, obedience. Elinor Glyn is the author...
Last week the New Society of Artists opened its seventh exhibition in Manhattan. The place of honor was given to George W. Bellows' unfamiliar War-piece, "The Massacre"-civilian figures huddled in a blur of terror before a firing squad. Stirling Calder, friend of Bellows, exhibited a half-length portrait of the painter in bronze...
Home from 75,000 miles of travel up and down Africa, a British missionary brought news. A photograph showed a long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have...
...Depew is distinguished. Lawyer, politician, public and post- prandial orator, he has seen many years full of service and honor. And the class of '89 is a distinguished class in its own right, patriarch or none. Of its 120 mem bers, there were at one-and-the sametime 17 occupying seats on benches of the judiciary. It has contributed 27 district attorneys and corporation counsels to our legal aristocracy. Lately it has styled itself "famous class"* without fear of contradiction...
...assured of this: On a not far distant day the young giant America will enwreathe the portrait of the man who placed upon it the burden of honor to fight for an ideal without the hope of material return. Never before in human history has this occurred...