Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cabled General A. V. Arnold: "Eugene Smith was wounded while accompanying troops in an attack south of Yanabaru. He was acting with splendid courage which we appreciate and we are thankful that his condition is not critical. We of the Seventh Division have the utmost respect for Smith and the deep sincerity he has shown in his work. We are proud of his action. The Commanding General of the Tenth Army concurs...
Rommel No Lee. Appraising the opposition, General Ike called Rundstedt "the most accomplished soldier we met." Rommel was "bold and courageous, but he was not a Lee or Marlborough or anything like that." The German professionals did not "respect Hitler's strategic brain very highly," but Hitler ran the whole show during...
Congressmen wanted a lot of things explained. One thing which needed explaining: why Hartford had dished out $200,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, whom he had never met before. With his sights on Brigadier General Roosevelt, Pegler suggested: "Hartford had a profound respect for the office of President of the U.S. and may have thought it was an honor to be asked to assist the son of a President." With its sights on "all concerned," the Washington Post commented acidly: "The precise nature of Mr. Hartford's interest in making the loan is open to serious question...
...Italy, editors "did not appear to realize they were free. They had taken orders so long. . . . There was cynicism, lack of confidence, not much self-respect or dignity. . . . The papers were not doing much of a news...
...look at the world from his Cornish window." Q put what he saw into stately poems, rolling ballads, romances, respect ful essays on Shakespeare and the ancients. Occasionally he published lectures which he felt were colored by a "colloquial style" - though one critic complained that the nearest thing in them to a colloquialism was "the repeated intrusion of the word 'Gentlemen.'" As dean of British belles-lettres, Q was not popular with the younger poets, whom he carefully omitted from the revised Oxford Book of 1940 and attacked as dispirited pessimists ("What are they for he cried...