Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that there are plenty of Republicans who will be glad to contribute from one dollar up to any reasonable sum, to clear their party of this humiliating stigma...
...Imperial Family, "with a realistic grasp of the situation, went into mourning for but three days. The nation was deprived of cinema performances for two days as a mark of minimum respect. Some hundreds of little girls came voluntarily to stand and pray outside the palace at which Death came to a Princess whose name may be translated ''Eternal Happiness...
...ship a hundred voyages round the world, for a man eighty-five years of life-either record, measured against ordinary lives and voyages, is worth respect. Next week, Captain Robert Dollar will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday by sailing on his S. S. President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924. "Mother" Dollar, shipmate of 33 crossings to China and Japan, and on his previous world cruises, will share his cabin. Next week, another one of Robert Dollar's ships, the President Polk, will back...
...observing the centenary of its greatest author's birth, at a time when his plays, though written for an audience of fifty years ago, are being revived with success. Ibsen's frankness no longer causes sensitive theatre-goers to shudder, for he has long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced...
...golf course near enough to the Yard to put golf in a class of popularity with any of the major sports and the majority of the minor. The absence of financial backing from the Harvard Athletic Association is perfectly explicable to all who realize the stringency in this respect that has been forced upon the Association by its building plans...