Word: honoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding...
...interviews with these dignitaries varied, Lorenz said, but "on the whole they were talking right to us." During the 25-day homestay, the group also toured many factories and attended social functions given in their honour by mayors and other government officers...
...peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
...press his hand upon her waist during a performance of Othello, but that was all), he consoled himself with a young Irish lady just 16-"formed like a Grecian nymph . . . her father with an estate of ?1,000 a year and above ?10,000 in ready money. Upon my honour, I never was so much in love." When Bozzy set off to Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor-and kibitzed so cutely that Bozzy forgot the object of his journey and proposed...
...wonder if the American voter will not say on Nov. 7: "As [Kefauver] loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious, I slew...