Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these reasons, immediately after the Armistice, I recommended in effect that this division be sent home first of all American troops, that they be sent home in all honor, but, above all, that they be sent quick. The answer came that Marshal Foch would not, pending peace, approve the transfer of any division back to the United States. In answer, I told the American headquarters to say to Marshal Foch that no man could be respon sible for the acts of these Negroes toward French women, and that he had better send this division home at once. This brought...
...rate, but that they might return the difference to the Treasury if they chose. Of the 531 Congressmen and Senators, only one has sent back the difference. Every month after the pay checks are sent out, he returns a check for $208.33. It is a point of honor with him. His father, John Randolph Tucker, onetime Representative, once refused a similar salary increase and had himself especially exempted from taking it in the appropriation bill. So Representative Henry...
...face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last year, at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles Horace Mayo was loudly mentioned (though his name was never put in nomination) as a candidate both for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency of the U. S.-an honor as extraordinary as it would have been inappropriate. Still reticent, he has met the recognition that sometimes overtakes inarticulate men who have lost themselves in their work and look up, astonished, after many years, to find that they are celebrated. It was he who compelled the staff of the Hospital...
...historically-minded writer in The Christian Science Monitor unearthed a report of Yale's commencement exercises in 1820: "'The day was very fine and an unusual number of visitants from abroad was present. . . . The exercises of the day were received with universal approbation and reflected the highest honor upon the institution and the Young Gentlemen who graduated...
...Highest honor in college, Phi Beta Kappa; most respected extra-curricular activity, Princetonian; favorite professor, McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...