Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under cross examination Premier Brownlee admitted taking Miss MacMillan for motor rides and said he kissed her good-by when leaving town but stoutly denied "kisses of passion." According to Miss MacMillan she never loved the Premier despite her repeated surrenders but "there was always a deep respect on my part...
...that H. R. H. at 40 is essentially frivolous. To quote a publicist devoted to the Royal Family: "More and more he puts his Peter Pan years behind him and becomes a serious citizen." But in one respect he refuses to please King George and Queen Mary. He will not live in Marlborough House. The Marlborough House issue arose first when the late Dowager Queen Alex andra moved there after King Edward's death, though London had long accepted Marlborough House as the normal residence of an adult Prince of Wales. Three years after the death of the Dowager...
...before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo!" "We're ordinary people here in Pittsburgh. We don't want to be bothered by Communists and Fascists. . . ." "Boooo! Boooo!" "I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried: "If you weren't so fooled and befuddled by a lot of Russian Communists you'd-" By this time the disorder was so great that the Mayor, shielded by two plainclothesmen, was forced to retreat through the fist-shaking, shrieking...
...that transport ten days, and every day of the ten I heard praise, admiration and respect expressed by the captain, the mate and the whole ship's crew for General MacArthur and his family. In their opinion the General was "a Prince," "a regular fellow," "the finest man who ever drew the breath of life," and Mrs. MacArthur was "a lovely woman." ''a good sport." "the real thing," and the children were "well-behaved youngsters." General MacArthur was not obliged to travel on that abominable boat. He could have taken leave and traveled home in comfort...
...lack of scholastic ambition," President Lowell writes, "and respect for scholarly attainment by the average American undergraduate has been due in part to the comparative absence of genuine and serious academic competition; in part to the fact that he has been inclined to believe that college grades as ordinarily given indicate diligence and decility rather than real superiority; while the faculties themselves have not been certainly have not tried to convince the public, that academic distinction is a harbinger of later success...