Word: honours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the President and Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, Inc. mailed out big 11" x 8½"), formal, engraved invitations requesting "the honour of your presence at a ceremony in the course of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will drive the last rivet [of silver alloy] in the fourteenth and final building of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon, November first...
Said Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 82: "When I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling menagerie of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures...
Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour, the power to excite sudden deep affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic...
...shall not want Honour in Heaven...
...with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital, it is the future of my children, it is the honour of the name I have given them-all things which will serve them one day. Therefore I work at my art, which is nothing (in money) for the moment (times are bad), but which will take shape in the future. That is a long time to wait, you will say, but what...