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Word: disrespectfulnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warn you that if you persisted in disrespect to Christianity I would not renew when my subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...home of the legend that is "Copey"--and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston. Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president--is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Copey" | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

...home of the legend that, is "Copey"-and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratorv; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president- is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Copey | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment for the President's disrespect toward the Virgin of Guadalupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Majority Opinion | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...their sorority dance. Proclaimed the spinsters: "We, the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were guilty of gigantic disrespect, both to ourselves and to our chaperon." The ten giants of disrespect were suspended from college for two weeks. In Washington, most of the blows were opposed to the ideals of Kappa Kappa Gamma. A neat one was delivered by William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, than whom there is perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Pre-War Moves | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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