Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon announced that he felt he must take action on the memorandum. Mr. Couzens had made his tax return on Mar. 13, 1920. The Treasury has just five years to reopen such cases, unless the taxpayer waives his right in this respect. The other minority stockholders had signed such waivers. Mr. Couzens was asked to sign one until the Treasury had time to investigate the charges in the memorandum. Instead, he appeared on the floor of the Senate, read the memorandum, denounced it as persecution and declared he would sign no waiver. The Treasury, with only a few hours...
...organization remain an Empire. But the British Empire cannot be called a Commonwealth as long as it remains an Empire. And to call it a Commonwealth is a Gross and Shameful perversion of truth, in the interest of creating a favorable impression for an institution that may not command respect otherwise. To put it mildly, it is only a half-truth. And as Tennyson said...
With all due respect to the Anti-Blasphemous Society, one might suggest that they are on the wrong track. Italians abroad who do not know the language of the country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...their green caps is not one that is reflective of such high ideals. It is on a par with all that is mean and laughable on Main Street. It is upon the rejection of this sapless philosophy, upon the conviction that the rising generation has a right to the respect which its intellectual and moral qualities can call forth, and upon the principles of Independence and Liberalism that the CRIMSON has attempted to build its editorial policy...
...mirth in any company and knights the dullest jackass as a wit. About the bulletin board of a golf club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived...