Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing, her mother-in-law kills her. The thoughtful content of this problem melodrama is not, obviously, of great value; but the actors use their bellows loudly and they make the play exciting...
Gibbs Gold Medalist. Chemist Harkins' researches have brought him world fame and the Willard Gibbs gold medal, a major honor in chemistry. He was chosen by a jury of twelve good chemists and true; the medal was presented by the Chicago section of the society. Atomic pictures are not his only passport to professional prestige. In various oil-and-water experiments he has earned the gratitude of oilmen. By pouring oil on water and letting the oil layer spread out to the thickness of one molecule he has been able to measure the exact size of the molecule...
There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...
Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, was the object of Negro hallelujahs throughout the U. S. when the Negro Y. M. C. A. established in his honor an annual holiday called Julius Rosenwald Day. For Negro welfare, Mr. Rosenwald has given some...
...honor to the opening of the Museum and to make it an event of nation-wide rather than local importance, a loan exhibition, including pieces from many of the country's most famous collections, was temporarily installed...