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His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.
Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.
It was a post of honor, held inviolate for him ; ;
The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.
Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..
Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.
Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.
In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus.
The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.
Since this picture was first developed by Ernst Stueckelberg, and acquired its modern form in Feynman's work, it is called the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation of antiparticles to honor both scientists.
) However, Ambrosian chant was named in his honor due to his contributions to the music of the Church ; he is credited with introducing hymnody from the Eastern Church into the West.
Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

was and like
He treats her like she was dirt.
The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.
Donna was like he was.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
It was like hitting a sack of salt.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.
She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.
There was no valley like this on your map.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;
It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

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