Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Italy holds a virtual protectorate over Albania, the note of Dictator Zogu received the respect appropriate to a communication undoubtedly approved if not ordered written by Italian Dictator Mussolini. It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania...
...these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation, when her colleges were, by common consent, deemed the fittest heirs of old world learnedness and worthy, by virtue of this, to new world respect...
Hans Pastoy becomes meditative and sympathetic. He comes to respect death. The approach is thoroughly naturalistic and pages are filled with physiological explanations. They are very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging...
Merry-Go-Round. This second Richard Herndon revue with few people against many backgrounds may be dismissed as a sample of unseasoned summer hash, flung in a heap and presented in a panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...