Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Resolute in our determination to respect the rights of others, and to command respect for the rights of ourselves, we must keep ourselves adequately strong in self-defense...
Vansittart. He is the exception to the English rule that no man of brilliance, dash and flair can long hold the respect of the British Cabinet, proverbially composed of steady and stodgy John Bulls who mistrust genius...
...feel there had been a clear-cut "Red" victory in Spain, or for France to feel there had been a clear-cut "Fascist" victory; that instead compromise-the traditional British virtue-must ultimately triumph in Spain, preferably by setting up a democracy under a constitutional monarch, with due respect for every man's property and religion...
...there would be no great gaps in the collection. Moreover, if the two or three tables nearest the exam windows were reserved for those who want to read the booklets, it might be possible to locate an exam. The rest is up to the college, up to them to respect the pages of a book rather than tear them up to suit their wishes. With these complications removed, the exam collection would more nearly fulfill the purpose for which it was put there; to show distracted students how much they do not know...
...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...