Word: disrespectfulnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disrespect is intended. For brevity's sake, TIME will continue to refer to "the U. S." - unless, of course, the majority of subscribers...
...commonplace. The Opposition in college today is not composed of the rigid economic dogmatists of yesterday with fixed ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans Clark. In The New York Times Magazine...
...technical crime: Disrespect...
...observance of a tradition that has become an almost sacred part of University life, disrespect or careless negligence are rather disheartening. Loud talking and laughing during Senior Singing each evening, musical Freshmen who decide to accompany the Seniors from the audience, town visitors with wailing balies, and the vociferous younger set of Witherspoon Street who hail themselves together nightly in the belief that this is the Children's Hour, all detract considerably from the enjoyment of those who come to listen, with earnest appreciation, to the singing itself. It seems only fair to the consideration of the latter that...
Meaning no disrespect by this dose, I remain, rather amused...