Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Spanking. Well before wrathful Sancho's ultimatum expired, Serrano penned him an abject note of apology: "I confirm all my profound esteem of you as a founder of the Falange and as a man." Honor satisfied and the duel off, Sancho still growled: "Serrano talks too much. He will step on my feet again. Next time I will not send friends. I will call on him myself ... I was not after a letter of apology or a duel. We do not fight duels any more in Spain. What I wanted was a good solid pretext to give Serrano...
...Catholic school that catered to the Irish and ignored the French. A bilingual college would provide for both. As its founder, and the first Bishop of Bytown, Monsignor Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, put it: "These young men living and growing up together would soon come to know and to esteem each other, and while preserving their national idiosyncrasies, would learn to wage side by side the good fight for God and country...
...never hesitated to ask influential friends to advance his cause, resented being second in anything and lived in constant fear of losing "preferment, character, credit, esteem, honor...
...Federation of Convent Alumnae, strait-laced Archbishop Duke spoke his mind on still another human frailty: bathing beauty contests. Said he: "They are unbecoming and could be the occasions of sin ... They are barred to Catholic women who realize in conscience this great danger ... It lowers the dignity and esteem due to women to parade them and measure them . . . like cattle...
After a night at the White House, and one at Blair House, Venezuela's Gallegos (along with 200 guests and newsmen) boarded Harry Truman's special train for Bolivar, Missouri. There, this week, with parades, pageantry and protestations of mutual esteem, the two Presidents were to unveil a seven-foot monument to South American Liberator...