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Word: respect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks at one end and Collett at the other. People who understood the respect determining this sequence expected that as usual Orcutt would beat Hicks and Collett would beat Orcutt. If one of these matches had been played in the semi-final and the other in the final the tournament would have achieved a suspense that it lost when Orcutt and Hicks and Collett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Oakland Hills | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this opportunity to reassure Deputy Serat concerning researches and experiments which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced methods of warfare. They are being actively pressed by French scientists." In Nottingham, England, last week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Two Speeches | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses, he observes: "They do pile up." She is even more enchanted by the Prince's frolicsome valet, who kisses her when his master is out of the room and is admirably behaved in every respect. What the audience knows, and Miss Lawrence does not, is that the Prince is really the valet and the valet the Prince. They have exchanged rank for the evening. What Miss Lawrence knows, and the audience only later discovers, is that she is really a parlor maid. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Some of the old talent in the group was lost at graduation last year, but the prospects of new men from the fall competitions lead the officers to expect a show which will in every respect equal former ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE FRANCAIS WILL GIVE PLAY IN DECEMBER | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

...tailor-made play in every respect, Grant Mitchell's revived vehicle is not unpleasant. Depending on the locality, it would be described as "an agreeable farce comedy", a "healthy" one or an "Inconsequential" one. The curtain-line is: "Isn't life a wonderful proposition after all?" That's the sort of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

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