Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Government feels that the respect with which China and Russia will hereafter be held in the good opinion of the world will necessarily in great measure depend upon the way in which they carry out [their] most sacred promises [as signatories of the Kellogg Pact...
...believe sensational books or biased newspaper articles,'' said the Chief Justice severely. "A great many of the people I met, both in public and in private, possessed rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering...
...stated that some of the abuses which have grown up under prohibition are due to the failure of some states to accept their share of responsibility for concurrent enforcement. He has several times requested a general respect...
...world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all." The vital office of philosophy today, says philosopher-educating Dewey, is "to search out . . . the obstructions" in life; to focus reflection upon needs congruous to present life; to interpret the conclusions of science with respect to their consequences for our beliefs about purposes and values in all phases of life...
...fellow-villagers lap up but which will not greatly move the reader) enters when she turns in despair from her husband to another man, for procreative purposes only. The results are unfortunate: though she produces a son she loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally the farm. The Natural Mother is a worthy book, realistic to a degree, not noticeably shocking but definitely depressing, of the same order as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, whose tone it occasionally echoes from afar...