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Booth and Watts, representing a group of students who wish to honor the Prince and Princess at Harvard, worded their telegram as follows: "Request honour of your presence at a dinner in your honour at Eliot House...
...Though Shaw's proposed "alfabet" never got beyond the discussion stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
...engraved invitations looked like those in many another June mailbox. They read: "Mr. Ham Fisher requests the honour of your presence at the marriage of Ann Howe to Mr. Joe Palooka on the afternoon of June twenty-fourth in your favorite newspaper." Last week Ham Fisher had already received formal acceptances from Chief Justice Fred Vinson, General Omar Bradley, and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...jested broadly of the charms of the grisettes, he noted in his diary: "When I balance the attractions of good and evil, when I consider what facilities, what talents a little vice would furnish, then rise before me not these laughters, but the dear and comely forms of honour and genius and piety in my distant home, and they touch me with chaste palms moist and cold, and say to me, You are ours...
Excellent performances upheld the "Honour" of Troy. Robert Fletcher was impressive, commanding, and noble as Hector, the pillar of Troy, and the only admirable character in the play...