Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to the charge of discriminations in prices, the evidence discloses that many customers received as great or greater discounts as those enjoyed by a company in which the Aluminum Co. owned a substantial interest...
...laws forbidding intermarriage of Negroes and whites reduce the colored girl to the position of a dog, without the respect which should be accorded human beings, and without the redress of wrong accorded the white woman...
...arrived to dwell in bigoted rusticity among savages, the American tribes calling themselves Mexica or Azteca had created the Mexican Empire and evolved a high and urban state of civilization, with courts of justice, a highly developed agricultural, mechanical and artistic technique, and a stone architecture which commanded the respect of the luxury-loving Spaniards when they arrived...
...wife should go to keep her husband out of the villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...
...onetime member of Yale's present senior class, one Lucius Beebe. After three years of moon-calfing about in New Haven, Student Beebe is in a position to tell Harvard men much about their Eli contemporaries. A bookish, loose-tongued fellow, with poetic ideas and no great respect for conventions, he is willing to make a public stir in the columns of the Crimson, Harvard's live undergraduate daily. Last autumn he supplied a comparison of Yale and Harvard rather flattering to the latter (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week he revisited his old haunts, found out the progress...