Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 27 issue contained an article about Fabian. This article was obviously written by some poor, misled jerk. I hope that in the future you will have a little more respect for a great teen-age idol...
...were a teen-ager-maybe in the days of Rudy Vallee or Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
...respect of most fellow Governors and rang up a record for solid performance by pushing his politically unpopular proposal (see Civil Defense) for state-supervised construction of fallout bomb shelters...
...Palace, A. A. Milne's Alice sympathetically remarked: "A soldier's life is terrible hard." Neither she nor England had seen anything yet. In those days the rigid young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour, the solemn and expressionless sentries marching mechanically 25 paces this way and 25 paces that no longer seemed to inspire...
...fundamental tenets of Methodism is the condemnation of the use of spirits. Committed by conscience to this proposition, would you, in a position of public trust, respect the right of others to consume such beverages? Could Government funds be used for this purpose, as in official cocktail parties? Would liquor industries be shut down? . . . Would you strive to make [present state anti-liquor] laws federal, thus forcing your own religious views on all your fellow citizens...