Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of frankness and the departure of chivalry, both characteristics, generally speaking, of the present age, are the targets for Miss Cabot's shafts. The cause of our lost manners, our disrespect for women, has been discussed before, and though it has in most cases been done in a sensational, non-scientific manner, the subject is perhaps of more significance than such Elinor Glyn articles would lead one to believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death...
However, without disrespect of either woman suffrage or Count Keyserling's opinion of its prowess, the latter's ideas might be said to verify the fact that distance lends enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...
...order is attuned to the times. It vibrates in harmony with the best thought in America. Those who can read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...
...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...cannot imagine how anyone can suppose that a request to the Governor to appoint an impartial commission to review the facts can imply any criticism or disrespect for the Supreme Judicial Court or even for the Trial Judge. The Supreme Judicial Court has declared itself precluded by its own decisions from considering the credibility or weight of the testimony offered at the trial or of the affidavits presented as grounds for a new trial. This being so, an appeal to the Governor to appoint a commission a review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery...