Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monument at Westminster Abbey. "In memory of the one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War." Moreover President (Premier)** William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State had added gloom to the unveiling by refusing to attend. His absence, he explained, was out of respect to the "pain" still felt by Free Staters at the use of British troops to put down the Dublin uprising...
There is a CRIMSON candidate whom I want to have fired. In fact, I insist upon it. Is not greatness to be recognized and treated with respect? Is not the man who is rightly called the Father of CRIMSON circulation to meet with deference from CRIMSON underlings? I will tell you, my sympathetic public, my grievance, and leave it to you to judge. I telephoned the CRIMSON office yesterday and in my usual dignified, albeit friendly tones called for the Managing Editor. Naturally I did not propose to talk business with anyone less. But it was a candidate who answered...
...year will be stressed by those on the platform. As the results of Tuesday's ballotting will almost certainly decide the availability of Prohibition as the national issue in 1928, it is expected that the speakers will describe in detail the battle between the Wets and the Drys without respect to party that has distinguished this year's campaign...
...Roosevelt, when he took office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pushed the building program, for he saw that a crisis such as that over Venezuela in 1895, might bring the nation into war with a power vastly superior in naval resources and that our weakness in this respect might prove our undoing. The critical state of Cuba led Roosevelt to believe that an explosion in the island might occur at any time, and that the country would do well to have a fleet ready for action in the Caribbean Sea. The promptness with which our fleets swung into action...
...next year, of which the subtitle was actually to be "The Holy Eucharist." Rev. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., chairman of the occasion, took his post and enunciated a seven-fold keynote, of which the most specific clause was: "To clarify the position of the Anglican Communion in respect to Protestant Christianity on the one hand and Roman Catholicism on the other...