Word: respectibility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generals hauled out their big oratorical guns for what promised to be a screaming international debate. At Verdun, where 23 years ago this week the French defenders were repulsing the attacking Germans, the usually silent General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, commander-in-chief of all French armed forces, said that "respect cannot be bought with concessions." French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet spoke to fellow Radical Socialists of the "spectre of war" haunting Europe, came right out and pleaded with the U. S. to remove war fears by joining the British-French Peace Front...
...loyalties organization . (" . . . . .") pride in his own corps, regiment, or unit is the outstanding characteristic of the British soldier . . ."), the booklet launches into the ticklish questions of discipline and saluting: "There is nothing in the least servile or derogatory in the custom. The the salute is a mutual gesture of respect to King's uniform...
...have been no difficulty. Lindbergh is a kind of man whom Americans instinctively appreciate and like: practical and resourceful, with a mechanical turn of mind, an extraordinary competence in his business, full of animal spirits, empty of all pretension, built around a steel-tough core of reserve and self-respect...
...critics who have learned their lesson this time paid Adam respect. "A piece of giant brutality, rugged power and exultant energy," said the Star. "A figure more powerful than the most powerful animal, indeed, a being that is king of all creation," said the Evening Standard. Said bushy-haired Sculptor Epstein, king of the Primitive movement in sculpture (whose authentic impulse none may question, whose enduring value time will tell): "I saw Adam as the questing, mysterious primitive man. I saw him as the fount of all mankind...
...Respect for the spirit of your recommendations as to tenure would seem to have required that scholars of unquestioned capacities who have served the University more than ten years should be offered the opportunity of permanent appointment--either at their present salaries or without promise of advance beyond the normal salary of an associate professor--even if such action were to be regarded as exceptional...