Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall by its present policy continues to give evidence of looking back with acute nostalgia to the days when curfew rang early and often for Widener. Though the shortcomings of the Father of Libraries have now been remedied on the whole, there is still room for considerable improvement with respect to Boylston and the House libraries if these are to be of maximum service to the students, particularly during the stress of the examination period...
...House of David's name was unauthorized and unfair. But: "The plaintiff complains quite bitterly because the defendant's ball players are all required to wear beards like those of the plaintiff's players. "From time immemorial, however, beards have been in the public domain. In respect of matters within that domain all men have rights in common. Any man, therefore, if so minded, may-without being subject to any challenge, legal or equitable-not only grow such beard as he can, but purposely imitate another's facial shrubbery-even to the extent of following such...
...million Americans are to have a opportunity to tell what they think of the New Deal. They will participate in a straw vote of a novel kind. It will be a secret ballot. It will be widely accepted as a reflection of the state of the public mind with respect to the policies of the Roosevelt Administration because it will be conducted by the Literary Digest, which in forecasting election results by this method has shown that it is remarkably accurate in telling how the American nation will vote. There would seem to be no reason why it should...
...only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...belonging to others have no place in the "Journey." The other characters do not take shape with anything near the same success. Robinson, a fellow inmate of the war hospital who appears intermittently throughout the book seems simply a variation of Bardamn himself, one whose moral sense and self-respect have mired deeper and deeper in futility, filth, and fear. The others leave little personality impression behind them. The translation by Mr. Marks is excellent and displays a remarkable knowledge of the English language and a great facility in American slang...