Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtesy and a sound respect for capable work forces recognition of the efforts of the "ladies of the ensemble." They are attractive, well costumed, and not over Dialadroit. Sarah Sherborne, the capable little entire act dancer is exquisite...
Egyptians perhaps fear and respect no man so much as George Ambrose, Baron Lloyd, the British High Commissioner to Egypt without whose approval no Egyptian Cabinet can exist (TIME, June 14). Last week this strong, suave man who stands for British Might in the "free" Kingdom of Egypt came to Rome...
...scheduled. France was second with 2,928,447 miles flown and 19,768 passengers. Great Britain covered 855,000 miles, carrying 14,675 passengers. Again geographical differences accounted for the mileage discrepancies, at least in Britain's case, but the enormous lead of Germany over the others in respect to passengers was most striking, reflecting as it did a highly developed network of air transport at the public disposal. Features of the European year were: the success of Belgium's route to the Kongo, cutting the time from Brussels to three days from six weeks, the 70% increase...
...promotion work; lays out campaigns; analyzes sales posbilities.) In making Bevo, he explained in last week's issue of Forbes: "We hardly proved ourselves prophets. We failed to diagnose correctly in advance the psychological reactions of the people to Prohibition legislation. We did not foresee the lessened respect for law which actually developed. We never anticipated the enormous increase which took place in the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, even as compared with pre-Prohibition days, by way of moonshine, home brew and smuggled whiskey, and the corresponding decrease in the demand for soft drinks...
...champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain off-stage, though not without cutting remarks on law in general...