Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without stressing the subject, and certainly never with malice or disrespect, TIME will continue to regard Mr. Roosevelt's legs as mentionable-unless a great majority of TIME readers commands otherwise...
...McLean-owned Enquirer was polite about it; the Taft-owned Times-Star, less so. But here was a chance for the Scripps-Howard Post to demonstrate its boasted disrespect for the upper crust. The Post splashed a conversation between its city editor and Dr. L. W. Scott Alter, treasurer of the Union...
...Chinese use the expression "foreign devil" with or without meaning disrespect, depending on the inflection...
...facts about study in American universities justify to some extent the disrespect felt for certain types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work...
...grave, hulking German came on to the stage at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week, made a solemn bow and, turning around, flipped his coat tails in the face of a smart Philharmonic-Symphony audience. The gesture was not one of disrespect. German Bruno Walter was just preparing to sit down before a keyboard, to play the harpsichord part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players...