Word: meritable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...house. Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...
...prevented from discussing the methods of arranging the costs so as to fill the stadium and, at the same time, to meet the variously sized pocketbooks of prospective spectators. With all ramifications in mind, however, the method tentatively considered by the Harvard and Dartmouth associations this year seems to merit most emphasis. The grading of prices according to the desirability of location has long been an essential to profitable theater management. Through a popularity, peculiar to itself, football has been able to ride roughshod over this principle; but present conditions and the definite promise of more vacant concrete...
Because most of the U. S. press is Republican, most U. S. political cartoons are antiDemocratic. But mass does not make merit. Democrats had little to fear from the stark platitudes of Boston Transcript'?, Cowan, the sketchy banalities of New York's Evening Post's Sykes. or the solemn exaggerations of Philadelphia Public Ledger's Warren...
Cultured Arabians consider Bagdad's so-called "Arabian Nights" a mere mess of dirty stories of no literary merit. First collected by a Frenchman, they were chaperoned into English literature by Sir Richard Burton, explore-translator who, like many a member of the Explorer's Club, had a taste for zestful tales...