Word: respectfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal, the arrogance of some of his [F.D.R.'s] lieutenants, the incompetence of others and the un-Americanism of still others, we believe his preparation for the war and his conduct of it represent solid credit balances . . . This greatest of wars has been in every essential respect much the best conducted of them all. Believe it or not, Roosevelt has outdone every wartime President...
...more often cowards than heroes, Washington had little respect. Of one group of 400 recruits, 114 deserted. More than once they broke and ran as soon as enemy were reported near. Washington hanged two deserters who had been sentenced to death by shooting and wrote to the Governor: "Your Honor will, I hope, excuse my hanging instead of shooting them. It conveyed much more terror to others; and it was for example sake...
...Washington has not replaced Lee in my affection, but he has rivaled him in my respect," said Dr. Freeman last week. "After you have spent 20 years in the company of a great man [Lee] you get ideas of what an historical personage ought to be, and you can't keep the company of ordinary men after that...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...attempt to fulfill the epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...