Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon afterward, however, the wrathful telephone-women of Paris united to defend their nimbleness and honor, and hurled the counter charge that they could not make quick connections with antiquated equipment...
Upwards of 40 men felt that they had an advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language and a fairly good knowledge of another. Many of these admitted that they were either concentrating in modern languages or that they were honor students. About an equal number were willing to stake themselves on an adequate knowledge of one language but confessed to ignorance of a second. A few said that they knew both French and German slightly but neither well enough to read them with ease or pleasure. At least a dozen of the Seniors interviewed declared that their linguistic capacities...
...have the honor to inform you that on this day your mine has been reduced to ashes. . . . The losses which you have sustained in the aforementioned mine you may collect from the Government of the United States and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who is truly responsible for the horrible and disastrous situation through which Nicaragua is passing at present...
...husbands of the two flying Ladies also figured in the news. Said Sir Abe Bailey, 63, owner of diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...
...Boys" of Andover applauded the President's speech. They had walked in the ways of the world and had returned to do honor to Andover. Among them were Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan and Company; Arthur Stanley Pease, president of Amherst College; Walter Prichard Eaton, dramatic critic, who told in verse about his first arrival at Andover "moist with maternal tears...