Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless one or more of the doctors who saved the life of George V will eventually be honored-but not this time. The only doctor to receive a peerage last week is Sir Berkeley Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. A coincidence of the week was that three days before the honors list was published, Sir Berkeley achieved terrific notoriety and put his name in screaming headlines by lecturing on Medicine and War before the London Authors' club. On his word of honor...
...increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found it to be by a modern Britisher...
...some weeks on the coast of Labrador. Chap II, without a scar, fell heir to the canceled cabin and arrived in England to receive, as inmate of cabin 136, the attentions of Sleuths A, B, C and D, respectively employed by a newspaper magnate, an industrialist, and Her Honor, the Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant, he escaped to France, only to be welcomed by Sleuth E (with an accent...
...seal the investiture, The Players unanimously elected him in October 1927 to succeed "Uncle John" as their president. And last fortnight another seal was added when Manhattan's Lotos Club hailed Actor Hampden as guest of honor and made speeches about...
...Honor most to be desired: Phi Beta Kappa, 94; Major "Y" 33; Chairman of Yale News, and Football Captain, 12; Skull and Bones, 11; Senior Society, 10; University Crew...