Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Dana Gibson. No. . . . Yes. . . . No. . . . The U. S. public votes for its "Ma" Fergusons, its W. C. T. U. reformers, its crow-voiced, flat-heeled "careerists," then gazes sheepishly, enviously, abroad to this woman twice ennobled-once by Virginia birth, again by British marriage-awards her the respect invariably awarded by democracy to true aristocracy...
...Versailles. Now and then he stretched forth a suede-gloved hand, touched an electric button, growled through tusk-like whiskers at his slinking abject secretary. To the old man came presidents, premiers, ambassadors. . . . Were they never so mighty, his strange greasy mongoloid visage and baleful luminous eyes kindled respect and an instinctive fear. As he rose from his desk, just prior to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Premier Clemenceau resembled so vividly a tiger about to spring that many of his associates have since confessed to feeling a twinge of animal terror course down their spines...
...have spoken freely to the honored head of a great people for whom I have preserved for fifty years my highest respect and friendship, because I believed that people was destined to receive from the old world the torch of a great ideal of humanity to carry on higher and higher. It is now for that people to pronounce judgment on itself. I can only offer the supreme homage of my silence, if I am mistaken...
...With homage and my deep respect, believe me, Mr. President, (Signed) "GEORGES CLEMENCEAU...
...marry. Before he can carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches of the notorious Borgias. In doing so, Actor Barrymore slashes and dashes through several reels that will possibly cause Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such revolution of character and such extravagant heroics, unless some overpowering agency transports him into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still...