Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statesmen Coolidge, Baldwin, Poincaré, Stresemann, even Mussolini, have invoked with respect to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, China, Tibet, Java and most of the earth's troubled lands, fear of all the spectre stands for. Asia is troubled by it, vaguely wondering if in loyalty to this presence perhaps lies union, strength and conquest...
...teachers no one who has suffered under the teacher-pedant will need much convincing. to expect a man to be a research worker as well as a teacher is about as logical as to demand that a goldsmith should also dig the gold he fashions. With the profoundest respect for Linguistics and for those possessing that aptitude, one is compelled to admit that it is a highly specialized study, and many a man possessing a wide knowledge of English Literature and a sincere appreciation of its beauty has lived and died in happy ignorance of even the rudimentary principles...
...National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contests are for the purpose of increasing interest in and respect for the Constitution of the United States. The contests of 1925, the first ones held on a national scale proved so successful that it was decided to continue the movement. The contests are financed and conducted by the Better America Federation of California as a contribution toward better citizenship
...fashion in these times for Queens as well as other women to go about with the twelve pound look firmly pressed upon their still not unlovely faces. Hence to marry a lady of title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must have careers, nowadays, or their bobbed haired ladies, what with their books and their lectures will quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married a kingdom and only incidentally a lady are gone...
...matter of fact, there was little comment con, and less pro, if by comment is meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry...