Word: respectfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process of wooing the woman voter is a little different, in one respect, from that of winning the support of the recalcitrant and suspicious male-words are sometimes not enough. Having made Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer of the U.S. and having sent diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta off as minister to Luxembourg, the Democrats last week offered U.S. females further evidence of trust and affection. Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn, was named Ambassador to Denmark...
Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...
...Lack of backfield speed. What holes in the line there were usually waned by the time the back arrived at the line of scrimmage. In this respect, it was like the Columbia game...
Erie Stanley Gardner, who, in the past 16 years, has ground out 62 whodunits (mostly about Lawyer Perry Mason), landed in Manhattan after a visit to England, with an expert's explanation of Britain's low crime rate: "Respect for the law. Over here, it's kind of a game ... If you think you can get away with passing a red light, you will. The British don't look at it that...
...inevitable woman--the coquette Katrina. From then until his encounter with the Headless Horseman, he floats about on the screen in a transport of joy. As for the Horseman, he scared the pants off the kids at the RKO-Keith. More mature moviegoers will have no trouble in this respect...