Word: honoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such times, he wrote poems. Over a period of ten years, he completed six of them, and Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs...
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...