Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...
...handsome picture of George V, R. I., his lion and his unicorn, a gift from Artist Salisbury to the President on behalf of the American people. Said Sir Ronald: "As the King's Ambassador in America I have often been impressed by the feelings of affectionate respect which His Majesty's personal qualities have inspired widely in America and which were so noticeable when he was gravely ill some years ago. They were again illustrated by the interest with which the American public during this summer has watched the ceremonies of the King's Silver Jubilee...
James Edward Davidson is a name to command respect among Nebraskans. In 1923 Mr. Davidson was King of Ak Sar Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...
Eighteen years ago Ethnologist Robert Heinrich Lowie began studying the Crow Indians on their reservation southeast of Billings, Mont. Although even then Crow culture clearly revealed white influence, Ethnologist Lowie found it still spiritually alive, with old customs enjoying respect if not observance. He was, moreover, able to compare his researches with those of previous investigators, could thus measure with some accuracy the extent and significance of changes resulting from contact with white civilization...
Ethnologist Lowie found that the Crow adhered quite strictly to their own curious codes. Although they held to the ideal of monogamy, faithful and austere wives and husbands were respected rather than imitated. A man automatically took possession of his wife's younger sisters if he wanted them. But he could not speak to his mother-in-law, nor could she speak to him. While adultery was sometimes punished, it involved no disgrace, and it was considered beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom...