Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommend, therefore, that in addition to the present estate taxes, there should be levied an inheritance, succession and legacy tax in respect to all very large amounts received by any one legatee or beneficiary; and to prevent, so far as possible, evasions of this tax, I recommend further the imposition of gift taxes suited to this...
...poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
...Honor as he declared, "I pledge myself to promote closer and friendlier relations between Japan and China. My Government attaches great importance to this, my mission." President Lin, a teetotaler and nonsmoker, next uttered compliments of exquisite cordiality, causing the Japanese Ambassador to exclaim: "This crystallizes the mutual respect and goodwill existing between our two countries!" Finally the Chinese hosts uncorked unlimited champagne and a peculiarly good time...
China's only other move last week was to have her envoys in Western States signatory to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty recall to those powers that Japan was also a signatory and like them pledged herself under Article 1, Section 1 "to respect the sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China." This pledge is now no more than wind among the willows, so disinclined are other Great Powers to hold Japan to their common pledge. Therefore the result of Chinese diplomatic protests last week in Washington, London, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, The Hague and Brussels...
...accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties, can have fun doing and seeing things alone. "[The divorced woman's] personality," the investigators conclude, "lacks the element of sweet femininity but commands respect for its rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance...