Word: respectably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange thing had marked the Pastor-Louis fight. It was a weird tribute. Had any other pair of fighters circled the ring for 55 seconds without letting fly a punch, boos, programs and perhaps chairs would have rained over the ropes. Such was the respect for the sudden death in Louis' left fist, such the sympathy for Pastor, outweighed 203 Ib. to 179 and regarded as a rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake...
Stamm) and Mrs. Davies' female secretary. This sort of candid Capitalism is, in a foreigner, the approach which commands the most respect from Bolsheviks in Russia today; they despise a Liberal or a Pink. At the Soviet frontier, where everyone must change trains, Ambassador Davies asked for a private car. Told that the Soviet has none, he cheerfully chartered a whole ordinary sleeping...
...northern shrimps are tender and delicious when cooked., and, at least to this prejudiced writer, quite as good as lobsters if not actually better. They average from five to eight inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken...
Vermont's legislature is now bicameral chiefly out of respect for the independence of her little towns. In the lower house each city and town, from Glastenbury with seven inhabitants, to Burlington with 25,000 has one representative...
...grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty because of their "great respect for law and order and the Michigan National Guard." The Guardsmen spent their time at the high school scrubbing floors and standing by, for the violence had subsided...