Word: disrespectfulness
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...formed in Manhattan last week by young lawyers opposing prohibition who promised to defend without charge "worthy cases who may be subject to the heavy penalties provided under that [Five & Ten] law." Seven onetime assistant U. S. District Attorneys signed up. Dry leaders in Washington were enraged at this "disrespect...
...members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth's sake...
TIME regrets its disrespect to Jerry, whose passing was noted in the Boston Globe. Ten years ago Joe Horan, chief buyer of Armour & Co., saw and admired youthful Jerry, appointed him assistant executioner in the stockyards. During ten years Jerry led the macabre processions of sheep and lambs to the slaughter house. Seven million innocents followed him. None of them returned. All became lamb and mutton chops. Deceptive Jerry was pampered, lived in idle ease. He died of old age after a succes d'estime...
...will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...seems to be a well established tradition among Advocate and Lampoon reviewers that what damning is to be done must be done through the medium of faint praise. Not as a mark of disrespect of tradition, but merely by way of a change, the present reviewer would like to attempt the experiment of stating his criticism as such, thus relieving whatever praise may be forthcoming, from the taint of faintheartedness or hypocrisy...