Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail...
...this day, the Irish police are called "peelers" and the British police are called "bobbies" in honor of their founder. So greatly do Britishers respect their p_olice that citizens swelled with indignation last week when the Chief Commissioner of London Police charged "bobbies" with being discourteous and inefficient. One nice old lady accosted a "bobby," presented him with half a crown, said: "Now, don't you listen to what anybody says...
...Liberal Club members, grinds, CRIMSON candidates--all are alike in one respect; they have a narrow, intense perspective," said Frederick Orin Bartlett '26, short-story writer, in an interview. He is probably best known as "The Old Dog", under which name he has written a series of college stories. Mr. Bartlett studied at the University intermittently during the closing years of the last century and nearly 25 years later came to Harvard again, this time to get a degree with the class...
...Cain sacrificed to the Lord "the fruit of the ground," Abel "the firstlings of his flock." "And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect...
...film test to be conducted here by First National Pictures Corporation and the publishers of College Humor all Harvard men interested in moving picture acting as a career will have an opportunity to learn the extent of their capabilities in that respect. It is probable that the test will be conducted sometime next month and the exact date will not be announced until later...