Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value of many of the individual figures stayed mum. None dared remind a man who has worked 15 years on one job that a 100-foot arch is not sculpture but architecture. The vast panels of plaster he has designed are white excrescences oozing from masonry. Despite their individual merit and the noble symbolism they represent, not one of the 53 figures has any structural connection with the arch of which it is a part...
...Waring and his Pennsylvanians, on the stage, put on a lot of horseplay which, for people who like horseplay, is very good horseplay. The best thing in the whole program, despite its incongruity and questionable taste, is a solo rendition of the Ave Maria by Stuart Churchill, tenor of merit. There are some boop-o-doop girls and some bird imitators. The festive evening is rounded out with an inconceivably asinine organ solo, with words on the screen about the relative merits of Jamaica Plain and South Boston as places to call home. It all ends with a cheer...
Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, has been decorated for the Royal Order of Rumanian Merit by the King of Rumania, it was learned last night. The honor carries with it all the privileges and immunities of Rumanian knighthood...
There are some low-comedy wisecracks which are not unamusing, and some which are; but the play is saved by Mr. Egan's ability to act, and gains through that the merit of not being a colossal bust...
...Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef." Requirements were high school diploma, successful completion of officers' training school, about 20 months in the front. But Dollfuss earned distinction by winning the "Verdienstkreuz," Cross of Merit, a decoration given to subalterns for outstanding deeds of valor only. . . . As an Austrian, I had yet to hear of an Austrian's breakfast consisting, of all things, "of a bowl of potato soup with whipped cream." If Kanzler Dollfuss prefers this kind of morning repast, his taste...