Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all due respect to the above contingent, one must remind The Class of three singularly miserable individuals--Devinna, Garbose, and Spibtarn--who opened college in Stillman Infirmary. Poor Devinna: he was there until...
...item "Greyed Eel to Be Said": Although BBC announcers may have their own enunciatory peculiarities, they're not alone in this respect. Right here in the U.S. one can find some equally puzzling variations. Samples...
...Only when the people of the U.S. become mature enough to judge others for their inner worth rather than their outer color will we deserve the respect of the world...
...less than 48 tribes in the space of seven years. By instinctive tact, he gained the hospitality of the Indians and overcame their superstitious fears of his brush and canvas. He came back with a priceless historical and artistic record consisting of some 500 pictures, and a lively respect for his Indian friends. Wrote Catlin in his journal: "An Indian is a beggar in Washington City, and a white man is almost equally so in the Mandan village. An Indian in Washington is mute, is dumb and embarrassed; and so is a white man (and for the very same reasons...
Tynan's enthusiasms are as strong as his dislikes. Recently, after he met Greta Garbo for the first time, he wrote: "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober." Tynan sees little to respect in fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...