Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been our custom in past years to foretell of the future for this glorious event, particularly with respect to the $5000 feature race, the Damon Runyon Memorial. In these troubled times, however, all is flux, and we have seen fit to substitute for our predications the following document...
...only one or two of the candidates had taken the initiative to engage in some campaigning they would not only have ensured their own election (it would seem that they were not particulary ambitious in that respect), but they would also have stirred up some badly needed interest in the election as such...
...feel," they say, "that we are due more respect than some of them (the freshmen...
British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who has picked up a few prizes in Manhattan for his biggest hit, Edward, My Son, had some thoughts as he prepared to return to London. He was "amazed" at the U.S. public's respect, "almost veneration," for English actors. "It's very lucky for us, of course," he conceded, "but it stultifies the American theater . . . You are always giving prizes and awards to English playwrights and players, a practice which in reverse would never be permitted in England...
...grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your comprehension of the sea affair, you will not let this crux ... go wrong for want of ... destroyers"). The blunt instrument is reserved for extreme use: "Mr. President, with great respect I must tell you that in the long history of the world this is a thing...