Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls dwells a race apart, whose unnatural existence is seldom probed, in whom society's only interest is the enforcement of its due. But in the last few years an advocate has appeared for the "forgotten race," a man whose penetration, squareness, and sincere faith in humankind have won respect and obedience within, attention and reputation without penitentiary confines. For nearly thirteen years Lewis E. Lawes has been warden of Sing Sing prison, and during that period intermittent magazine articles have revealed a growing philosophy. In his first book, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing," he utters for the first...
...community. For thirteen years the Liberal Club has existed to serve three general purposes, to maintain a free and open forum for the discussion of the larger issues of public policy, as well as issues of University policy, to carry on a program of political and economic education with respect to the immediate problems of the day, and to provide a common medium for the expression of opinion in which all the progressive minded members of the University might share...
...this case he addressed the assemblage and told them if they promised secrecy in the matter he would advise them as to the course of treatment pursued. This having been given, the Doctor said to them he simply fed the victim artificially and left him alone in every other respect and he speedily recovered this to the consternation of all assembled...
...reasons offered for this occult policy in respect to business carried out condense into one, that the Council is in the last analysis an advisory body. Its decisions must be further approved by various University committees. It would cause embarrassment the argument runs, both to the Council and to the University officials concerned if some measure passed by the first group should be turned down by the second. If no notice of Student Council conclusions is ever made until the change has passed all the stages of official sanction, it makes no difference what the attitude of the group...
Near Ball's Wharf, among the scattering of poor white farmers, lives Luther Harris, a great six-foot yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades...