Word: disrespectfulnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Carson" is just the sort of book one would expect from a former Rhodes Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...
...those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening of the next day, as Earl Haig stood up to put on his pajamas and then sat down on the edge of his bed, he was stricken with heart failure, died instantly...