Word: honore
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Libertador, South America's George Washington, was 100 years dead last week. Officials of a dozen nations united to do him honor. Messages were sent, editorials published, statues unveiled and holidays declared. Only the fact that three of the six nations which he founded have suffered either revolution or political insurrections in the past year prevented El Libertador's centenary from being even more festive...
...Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor fraternity. "Science and humanism must be linked together...
...Aurora, Ill., Justice Galvin married David Livsey and Fay Sutcliffe. The wedding service: "Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...
...sweet lady, do you say you will promise to obey? Love your husband, honor him, for his sake risk life and limb? Never look at other men, pledge yourself to him; and then, faithful for the rest of life, be his gentle loving wife...
...slow but inexhaustible mind, no reputation as a wit, no interest in the arts. He reread Robinson Crusoe every year. When he spoke extemporaneously he often groped for the right word, would not be happy till he got it. Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes on his character have been overawed by his splendor. In all American history there has been no statesman who, in manner and bearing, appeared so noble." Of good New England stock (his father...