Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reviewing one of the Shriners' parades in Washington, Mrs. Harding rose (approximately 110 times) and saluted the stars and stripes as they passed. Her action prompted other women to follow her example. Said Mrs. Harding: " Why shouldn't the women of America pay the same respect to the flag as the men do ? No citizen of this country is a better American than I am. I purpose hereafter, as long as I live, to salute the American flag...
...opinion of many Americans, the Royalist question is not treated as a joke by the French public. Ever since the war there has been a growing movement of a serious nature in Royalist circles. During the war many Royalists distinguished themselves, and in many cases earned the respect, if nothing more, of the public. The number of "young aristocrats'' in favor of the Republic are few indeed, except perhaps those of the First and Second Empires, whose cause is practically dead...
...performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard and heeded the protesting yells of their comrades outside. They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep on with the performance, in spite of the din, but finally...
...state shall be required to do nothing which the individual can do for himself either by his own efforts or by acting in concert with his fellows. American wage earners look upon themselves as citizens of the republic, standing on an absolute equality with all other citizens in respect to every attribute of citizenship. They have no desire to be regarded as a class set apart to be shielded by the protection of special political agencies and they refuse to permit discrimination against themselves on account of their status in the economic or social structure...
...rule of economic reason. Arbitration boards, wage-fixing commissions, cooperative movements will always be temporary expedients, and are now too often mere sops to stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...