Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helsingfoors, had already turned out men who had been place winners in the Olympic games, and the interest in all sorts of sports was intense. Mikkola showed an adaptability in all athletic games which soon placed him in a prominent position in his club, and his activity in this respect and in other fields made him well-wnown throughout the whole of Finland. He became celebrated as a marksman, won the pole vault and steeple chase in the athletic games held in Petrograd as a captain in the army won several medals for bravery and distinguished service...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...
...late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...
...Sturdy Secretary of Labor James J. Davis is proud of Pennsylvania. Born in South Wales, he moved to the little town of Sharon, Pa., finished his schooling at the age of eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state...
...lady and very cool. Scarcely anyone can handle emotional characters with her legerity and yet not be trifling. Two of her lovely ladies, for example, tour France with a charming philanderer. They find him out in time to save their friendship and in a manner that saves their self-respect. Yet just before the climax, tragedy impends. In another story, the mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given...