Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Governors of the National Aeronautic Association request the honor of your presence at the Pulitzer Trophy Race at Mitchel Field, Saturday...
...William V. Hodges of Denver, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, called at the White House to thank Mr. Coolidge-thank him for an honor declined. The President had offered Mr. Hodges the vacant embassy at Tokyo. Mr. Hodges, a widower, had declined for the sake of his children whom he wishes to have educated...
...Your predecessors risked their heads at Runnymede. Your forebears risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor beneath the Liberty Bell...
...Hearst fights without any scruples to hamper him. He will say anything and do anything to win. There are no rules of the game for Mr. Hearst. There is no code of honor. Truth is of no importance to him. The only reason he did not make the campaign even dirtier than it was is that he did not dare face the reprisal which Senator Walker could have inflicted. Not fairness, not courtesy, not truth, restrained him, but the fear of what Smith and Walker could have done if they too had gone the limit...
...Manhattan for 25 years, a preacher has exhorted Wall Street crowds to the practice of honor, tolerance and good will. He, the Reverend William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street," has made a daily appearance in the financial district at noon, when sky-assaulting buildings dribble out humanity, let it eddy about for an hour, and suck it in again. The Bishop, attired in the decent cloth of his office, taking station outside the Morgan office, the Sub-Treasury building, or the Stock Exchange, has harangued tolerant gatherings of bottle-nosed clerks, pasty runners for brokerage houses, gentlemen's stenographers...