Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they seem to be growing in volume. Many readers of your paper, spontaneously and without any collusion, saw in the story many a sly dig against the Church and its personalities. You see, once it gets into people's minds that you have no respect for anything, they see in all of your airy remarks something sinister or at least unfriendly. Watch your adjectives...
...wording their letter of protest against the Baker appointment the members of the Bar Association expressed a hope which was too optimistic and a politeness and respect which His Excellency hardly deserves. Black may be white, and Mr. Baker may be Galahad fresh from the Table Round, as the Bar tactfully suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham...
...such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence in, or respect...
...have the honor to be, with much esteem and respect sir, Your Excellancy's most obediant and humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON...
...have been asked to address groups: The Future of the Western Hemisphere, Shakespeare's Message to the World, and What's Worth While in Life. . . . When I have professed my inability to deal with such gargantuan subjects I have almost uniformly sensed a plunge in the respect of my petitioners for me. ... In some cases the reactions have been all but audible, and it has been much as though I had been told, 'You dare to pass yourself as a college president and you don't know Shakespeare's message to the world! It smacks...