Word: honors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...
...Edward Everett (Dolly) Gann, Second Lady of the Land, last week set-at rest the misgivings of temperate Christian women. Mrs. Ludie D. Pickett, president of the Kentucky W. C. T. U., having heard that Mrs. Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner...
Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...
...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...