Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...
With all due respect to the flaccid corruption innate to this snowy municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal...
...friend, Charles Nordhoff, and I, while appreciating the friendly notice of our book, Men Against the Sea, which appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of TIME, rather resent some of the distinctions wished upon us by your reviewer. After giving various intimate details with respect to our private lives (which would appear to have little to do with the merits or demerits of our book), the reviewer proceeds: "Both rebuffed globe-girdling Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks when he tried to hire them for small parts in his Mr. Robinson Crusoe. Both have been made (by decree of Governor Léonce...
...different in this respect are the other negroes, who seem to be seldom outside the church. Where modern amusements are either too far different, too expensive, or too wicked, the meeting-house bell is heard by all. Mrs. Peterkin has depicted the peculiar religious zeal of the rural negro with humor and understanding. Her description of the frocked deacons, the collection plate en parade, "testifying," and the weird frenzy of the confessional "stomp" seem incredible to one who has not witnessed these things first hand. A more lofty spiritual tone pervades the sonorous "lining out" of hymns to those...
...impulsiveness with which the administration acted may, however, teach a lesson for the future. For if it brings a more cautions course in respect to charges that require at least a hearing and establishment of guilt, then the controversy over airmail will not have been without its constructive benefits...