Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account of expatriated Juan Leguia's story of Peru was well introduced over his whiskey glass, but out of respect to wonderful little Peru and some of its blooded and true gentlemen (all of whom are proud of their Incan ancestors), you should have let it go as a drinking tale. Never could such a fanciful story help explain the many Latin American revolutions...
...shall appear that any person has been tampering with any witness in respect to any evidence to be given in this House or in committee thereof, or directly or indirectly, has endeavored to defeat or hinder any person from giving evidence, the same is declared to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor, and the House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender...
...makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect, whom to associate with was to love...
...Author. Small, shy and blond, Robert Cantwell at 26 inspires more respect than is usual for one so young. Born in Little Falls, Wash., he had one year at the University Of Washington, then went to work in a veneer plant. In the course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with...
...easy and grateful refuge for the weak and the sick, the stupid and the misinformed, the confiding and the irresolute, but there is little in it to attract men and women who are intelligent and enterprising, and do not fear remote, gaseous and preposterous gods, and have a proper respect for the dignity...