Word: regardful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brow beaten and bullied by officials in this country, in our choice of literature, art, political opinions, manners, and dress, that we have unconsciously come to regard as an insurgent whoever rebels against the new tyranny, Cohen, whatever his means and manner, has attempted to reassert our liberties and it is inappropriate. I think, for the CRIMSON or for anyone else to assume an amused and detached attitude toward the slightly ridiculous scuffle in Harvard Square. It is better for our self-respect to protest, instead of smiling when liberties which once meant much to us, are taken away...
...were it merely a case of "growing pains" in industry, not many people would regard the situation as a menace to American economic life. It is the shadowy connection with the Communist organizations of Russia that alarms the average American, and he sees in the Marion and Gastonia riots a threat of the violence that may spread to every section of our industrial life. The very thought of red Russian influence in American industry is a bugbear to the normal business...
...were unable to hear the words of untalented Voroshilov for the snorting of horses, his remarks were taken as a subtle insult to the non-Communist Polish army across the frontier. Polish farmers whose hayricks and chicken yards may be commandeered during maneuvers just as in actual war times, regard the war games of the Polish army as an unavoidable annual catastrophe...
...more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all families, who sat in the rear of the rooms and cried their vices to each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury...
...education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes of the gift are obvious, but its effects may not be so simple. A director and member of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific, Mr. Harkness nonetheless seems to regard the road as something more than a source of dividends. For a businessman to make donations to his company (which may exceed a year's dividends from his holdings), for a man of wealth to help a business concern as if it were a college or hospital-these...