Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Mr. Borah: "I have a profound respect for the opinions of Senator Root; I know his standing as a lawyer and a statesman, but I have a still more profound respect for the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next...
...only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
...Even if the Americans have a lot of money, we French," he interposed a sweeping gesture at his bookcase, "we have a lot of paper dollars. What a richness, what a flowering of genius is our epoch, and how poor is America in this respect when compared with us. She counts hardly ten talented writers, Dreiser, Stinclair Lewis, Sherwood. Anderson, Cabell, and several others, Consider out own authors: Maurras, Marsau, Morand, Maurois, Mauriase, Miomandre, Montherland, Magre, Mille, Martin du Gard... There are ten already, and I have only listed those whose names begin with M. We can be proud...
...newspapers. Certain of them, in fact, make a specialty of unfavorable reviews. On the other hand there are magazines, and it must be said that the Bookman with its columns laden with publishers' advertisements is one of them, who are guided chiefly by a sense of respect for what has received the seal of popular approval. That the Bookman manages to guage the merit of this approval before it joins in the chorus of praise is to the credit of its intelligence but detracts from its present thesis. What it is demanding is an American Academy of Literary infamy...