Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitterly Duke and Count complained that their honor had been sullied by the Marquis. What did he mean, they asked in effect, by breaking off his engagement with the Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 18) and giving as his reason her "imprudent and inexplicable" conduct in appearing on the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by the Duke and Count...
Since dictators are proverbially above honor, dueling, and stooping to answer open letters, General Primo de Rivera contented himself, last week, with observing to reporters: "My position does not permit me to be at the disposition of persons who, thinking themselves damaged by my statements, would seek to involve me in a personal dispute...
Such an attitude violates all canons of Spanish honor. Therefore, last week, most Spanish statesmen not of the dictator's own faction pointedly absented themselves from a State Ball given at the Royal Palace in Madrid...
Died. John Enri dal Plaz, 63, president of the French Line, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; in Paris; after a breakdown probably due to overwork...
...Supreme Order of Christ instituted in 1319 as an active religious order for Portuguese knights and preserved today only as a titular papal honor. Though no U. S. personage holds the cross of this order, others honored with it include onetime (1919-22) President Dr. Epitacio Pessoa of Brazil and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (TIME, April...