Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Respect the temple...
...François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...Senator Robinson retains his drawl and heartiness. His fists are big, his temper quick. Four years ago, during a golf course argument, he punched down another player (one Dr. James F. Mitchell of Washington, D. C.) and had to be suspended from the Chevy Chase Club. Senate Democrats respect his courage and vocabulary. Latest to be whipped into order was Alabama's ponderous Heflin, who challenged Senator Robinson's leadership during one of his Pope-baiting tirades (TIME...
Peerers at Ambassador Culburtson would have seen a very flower among U. S. diplomats, not a shirt-sleever, not a spat-wearing expatriate, but a comfortable man of kindly shrewdness, a man from Emporia who walked unruffled through Rumanian intrigue, won confidence, kept respect. Minister Culburtson was in Bucharest when the late Prime Minister Jon Bratiano heard from trustworthy sources of the effect produced upon U. S. public opinion by the tour of Queen Marie, and despatched the secret cablegram which resulted in Her Majesty's precipitant return...
...that the unification of China has been consummated, we think the time is ripe ... to begin at once to negotiate . . . new treaties on the basis of complete equality and mutual respect for each other's sovereignty...