Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Oct. 8, under the caption "Palestine,'' you indulge in ridicule of what millions of Jews and of sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped...
...French colonies. Their work was of the greatest value in coordinating a Colonial Empire so vast that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There...
...suggest in this connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...past, for a time at least, and some other game must be chosen for the final chapter. I hope that I shall finish my course with my personal tradition unbroken; never to have seen an Army team drawn up the hill after a final defeat. And with all due respect to dear old Harvard. I hope there are no intermediate defeats...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...