Word: esteeming
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...little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face of an anonymous cinemaddict who is almost strangled by his amusement at the preview of Merton's picture, underscores the gesture...
Ever shrouded in discretion are proceedings of the French Academy, but each new "Immortal" is supposed to make a speech and his words are always released. Recently dapper General Max Weygand, "Savior of Poland" (1920) and successor in French popular esteem to the late, great...
...that system the Republic has been ruled for just over two years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
...announcement that Professor Schumpeter will be at Harvard once again next year is indeed good news. On his previous two visits to Cambridge, in 1927-28 and again last year, Professor Schumpeter gained an unique position in the esteem of faculty colleagues and students alike...
...pleasant reading. His courageous struggle against fragile health gives proof of praiseworthy perseverance; his occasional attempts at fiction and poetry reveal an attractively human weakness. A refined and keen judgment coupled with a dignified scholarly career mark Gamaliel Bradford as an unusually attractive character, well worthy of the high esteem he enjoyed as a biographer...