Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need to put more vim into the catch. At present Legate, Loring and Harriman are notably deficient in this respect...
...practice of sleeping in an ordinary "lower" which is observed by the President of the United States.* Let me tell you that our President gains nothing by this practice, and certainly our country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President if he traveled in the world's finest private train, costing perhaps $1,000,000? Let me answer my own question by saying that the peoples of the earth would all have more respect for our President if he lived and traveled in a style worthy...
...Chicago, the Council of Aldermen bumbled loudly when a bill was introduced to authorize fire-engine sirens on hearses. Undertakers had complained they were not receiving respect or public co-operation while following their profession...
...were not allowed to approach the University training table, and if, occasionally, one straggled by, he immediately received a barrage of every-thing from bread crusts to plates from the upperclassmen. There is quite a contrast now down there. The Freshmen are treated with the same attention and respect as the Seniors, and consequently everybody down there has a better time...
...success. Discipline was weak, we are told, and there were too many students who were only interested in having a good time; the food they say was not always good, and the ship was crowded; there were divisions of authority and petty squabblings among the leaders which lost the respect of the student body. None of these faults ought to be repeated, and all of them can be remedied. Indeed the plans for this fall of the Floating University Aurania seem to indicate that they are being remedied...