Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uninteresting to the public to know that H. B. Warner, Dudley Digges and John Drew are normal gentlemen. As a publicity factor gentlemanliness is neglible. Yet their examples show that it is possible to make one's living from the bright side of the footlights without losing the respect of God and the Social Register...
...stepped on nobody's toes. She has made herself popular by her public benefactions.. Only a few weeks ago she took a prominent part in Mayor Hylan's Silver Jubilee of Greater New York. She has always stood openly behind ex-President Wilson. And she commands the respect of the Hearst press...
Slightly over a year ago Mr. Mencken was well described in the columns of The New York World: " A Boy I cannot Hand Much to Is Henry Louis Mencken, who Is Sadly lacking in Respect For the Anointed and Elect; He has no Proper Reverence for A Congressman or Senator! Great Names that Time can never...
...feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters in the States- mostly icemen...
Siegfried Wagner, who will conduct a series of orchestra concerts in America next season, will give programs interesting in at least one respect. It is stated that he will limit himself more or less to his own compositions, those of his father, the great Richard "Wagner, and of his grandfather, Franz Liszt...