Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your name is pronounced by all healthy-minded people with profound respect and 'Mussolinismo' has become a religion, has become a doctrine of redemption which finds in the whole world thousands of admirers and proselytes. A great part of the Spanish Army and people? indeed, almost all of them?realized that the example of Fascismo in Italy could be imitated and they performed the same work of redemption. This I am proud to proclaim today before the head of the Italian State, who is also head of Fascismo...
...drinking rather than drunkenness became the social offense. The result was a rapid swing back from the attitude that a man might drink, but owed respect for his follows in the matter of conduct to the boyish point of view that intoxication was a joke, not on one's self, but on the law. The sense of personal responsibility was miraculously shifted from the individual to the law, and the result has been occasional debauches in the universities...
What sort of fathers are Senators? A statistical Washington reporter decided to take a census of Senatorial offspring, with especial regard to twins. In this respect the greatest father of all is Dr. Edwin Fremont Ladd, senior Senator from North Dakota, progenitor of eight children including two sets of twins. William H. King of Utah confesses to one pair of twins, born last Summer while he was abroad with Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan...
...Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...
...respect to this even distribution of the scoring power that the Tiger combination excels. Although Princeton's hill and dale firmament is starless, it comprises a wealth of profitable runners. Against M. I. T., for example, the Orange and Black took second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh places. With such contestants in the field, therefore, it appears that the outcome will probably be decided in the lower places, even though Watters, Cutcheon, and Treadwell may turn in some brilliant performances...