Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. You heard it on the train. It was becoming current throughout the country that there was such a story. It was something rivalling the importance of the whispered campaign that there was in the last month before Mr. Harding's election, and I believed that out of respect to his memory that thing should be brought up to close scrutiny, and the scandal, if it is a scandal, as I believe it is, should be downed...
...great plays now "on Broadway" is G. B. Shaw's Saint Joan. A central scene is a conversation between the Bishop of Beauvais and the Earl of Warwick. The Bishop objects to Joan of Arc because in her passion for God, she overlooks the respect which is a Bishop's due. The Earl objects to her because, in her passion for France, she overlooks the respect due to a Feudal Earl. Bishop and Earl join hands to burn...
...declined an invitation to become the sole preacher and professor of Christian ethics at Harvard, but for a long time he exerted a deep influence upon the religious life of the University--a greater influence, probably, than anyone else has ever wielded. Incidentally, and with all respect, it may be of interest that he was six feet four inches tall--which was considered unusual even in the virile...
...last it has received its due attention. Mr. Ernest Brennecke, in the March issue of the Century Magazine not only traces the development of the comic sheet--beginning arbitrarily, as he says, with the medieval "Dance of Death" pictures but he carefuly analyzes the modern "funnies" with respect to their philosophy, intent, method and so on, in a most illuminating discussion...
PREMIER Poincaré, to extremist Deputies : "Keep to the subject and abstain, I beseech you, from all personal attacks. Remember France of which you are representatives. She is worthy of your respect. We will honor her in showing ourselves worthy of her. While France is watching you, other countries are watching you, too." After this speech had failed to quiet the Deputies, Premier Poincaré and the whole Cabinet marched out of the Chamber...