Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breeding place of error and corruption, but it is flattering to find that no less an intellectual than the archpriest of commerce shares the view. At decent intervals the descendants of John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak...
...that cannot be justified in morals or in law." Others referred to it as "the blackest page in our history as a nation." Still others said of the President: "Did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge in browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly disrespect be matched in the annals of treaty-making nations?" On the other side President Roosevelt's patience was severely taxed and he had seen a half a century's dillydallying over the Panama question bring forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well...
...declared a part of the U. S.; but it is everybody's privilege to adhere to what good points they have in their own institutions. This is a rational attitude which makes possible healthy international relations. But on the other hand Russia became a target of universal criticism and disrespect when she began her propaganda of preaching to the nations of the world the gospel of "Soviet" Republic (which according to her is the only right form of government) instead of Republican form of government. Russia wanted wholesale conversion of other nations scraping their names, traditions, culture...
...Announcement was made at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Kansas City. At the same meeting a letter was read from Dr. Eliot urging the erection of a majestic arch as a war memorial rather than the founding, for the same purpose, of scholarships. A resolution condemning disrespect toward the Eighteenth Amendment was carried but tabled...
...great God-given phenomena at which he gazes not with the eyes of a visionary but with the naïveté of the fourteen-year-old child which represents the reading public. Add to this naïveté of Mr. Broun's a curiously gentle sympathy for mankind, and a thorough disrespect for snobbery, and you have the man. His opinion of a play is likely to be very near that of the average theatregoer. His tastes are those of the average man. He likes baseball. He likes poker. His new novel is to be a novel of baseball. He is calling...