Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the public reports with respect to alleged proclivity of members of the Hawaiian race in sexual crime is substantiated by the facts. The Hawaiians have a different sexual standard than we have but I found no reason for believing that the result of such a different standard predisposes the Hawaiian to violent sex crime. . . . The amount of sex-crime seemed less than reported from many localities on the mainland...
...college president. . . . The highest qualification for a college presidency is that the students should desire to be like the president. I can imagine few people whom it would be more wholesome to be like than him." Said President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Amherst's rival. Dartmouth: "My respect has continued and grown for the scope of his intellectual interest and for the quality of his thinking in regard to political and social problems...
...almost autocratic self assurance. Through his activities in business, in politics, in grand opera, Mr. Insull is one of the best known citizens of Chicago, as are also his son and his brother Martin. Last week's problems did not appear to have stripped the Insulls of Chicago's respect. Their trouble was purely financial. No ice, heat, light or traction service would be interrupted by the intricate figuring at the Manhattan meeting. Criticisms voiced last week were directed against the utility holding company as a financial device rather than against Pyramid Builder Insull himself...
...novel' is now on the wane, unless the novel is very well done. I have just published a novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince...
...their primitive, elemental desires and relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world. In the greatest crisis of their lives they failed...