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...first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know Freddie." And Freddie was an important factor in the case. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Perhaps Mr. Hibben knows much, very much, about the weakness he ascribes to Henry Ward Beecher; he certainly does not know Mr. Beecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

They some deep stuff in it an' I don't git it all. For instunce, it sez inside, Honi soit qui mal Y pense, which is woise then th' way I spell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT'S UH PEACH", SAYS OTTO GROW OF NEW LAMPY | 3/23/1926 | See Source »

...foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Unconscious Jest | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

After this, King Albert muttered a fervent Dieu soit loué (God be praised) and dined Colonel House. Two days later, a vast worry removed from his mind, he opened the third Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in the Palais des Académies and received a rousing ovation from the 780 delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Cabinet | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice will finally be made illegal, we shall have reached the acme of perfection. The motto "Honi Soit--" is out of date, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAUGHTY RABELAIS! | 2/2/1922 | See Source »

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