Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author MacNeice does his best work when he is laughing up his Celtic sleeve at the cordial disrespect with which the general run of things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress-"sighing like something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination...
...courts have reversed the decision of the racing commission, but this made no difference, since neither of the two men were at all inclined to pay any attention to the courts' decisions. And finally there came the entirely unwarranted declaration of martial law, with all its ugly odor of disrespect for the rights of private citizens, justification for which was ludicrously attempted by the governor when he said a "state of insurrection" existed...
...Constitution, described it as a "layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." Principal pleasure of the five-day meeting was a series of political speeches and a set of political resolutions which set the legal profession and the New Deal on an equal footing of mutual disrespect...
...issue of TIME your foreign editor is guilty, if not of deliberate misrepresentation, at least of sly disrespect which is resented not only by the Spanish people but American citizens interested in the Spanish Cause...
...Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...