Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another student remarked. The thing that impresses me most strongly about Professor Conant is his remarkable ability in handling people. After he had known a pupil for only a week or two he had decided just how that student should be treated. He never made an error in this respect as far as I know...
...Department of Agriculture and Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. in the R. F. C., Columbia professors both. Senators and Representatives privately denounce them as "second-raters" who command no widespread academic respect, flay them as radical theorists who are about to strangle the U. S. Government to death. Oft-repeated are the predictions that some day the power of the "Brain Trust" over the White House will cause a terrific rebellion within the party against its leader. But Dr. Moley, jealous of his close association with the President, is no radical. He believes in economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover...
...unbridled expansion. That is what it is because the rein is so loose that the steed will never stop until he goes over the precipice, killing his rider. "I find I must desist. It is painful to disagree with the occupant of the White House whom I love and respect. But I am one Democrat who is going to vote against this inflation amendment. I may have regret but shall never make apologies for acting upon my own convictions and conscience." But no speech by Senator Glass or anyone else could stop the onward sweep of the President...
...many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose an opportunity to inculcate good old-fashioned morality, embodying principles of decency and respect for individual personality and clean-mindedness." Testified one of her former pupils: "Miss Hannah always told me never to swear or drink or let a boy touch me, and I never...
...counts. Instead of sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different school. Good shot: the last one, of Arliss' toes, placed on the gunwale...