Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With Japan the question is not one of expediency-of whether Japan be allowed to send a few hundreds more of her emigrants to this country or not- but one of principle, of whether her self-respect as a nation should be given proper and friendly consideration...
...stand four-square with respect to this and every other order, on the immutable guarantee of liberty contained in the first paragraph of the Constitution of the United States, that is, for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religious worship and the right of peaceable assemblage...
...They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves the reader somewhat in doubt as to the object of the comparison-and the respect. A book quite without guile, absolutely without discretion, for the most part mildly amusing, on some few occasions, penetrating...
...days ago, the President of the Society instructed the Secretary to show a sign reading KEEP YOUR HAT ON near the entrance to the exhibition, this being an effort to start the European custom in this country. Charles Duncan, with a group of other painters, objected: "One should show respect...
When the cars had pushed their way out through the crowd again, Hubbard presented Eliot with a parchment signed by officers of every organization in the University as a sign of their respect and affection...