Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect. For both, a burial is a show which the night would shroud and destroy. To most of us the earth is black enough already without darkening the sun on our last journey...
While the Spanish people feel respect and deference for spiritual orders, they have no use for church politics, always considered the Papal Nuncio in Madrid as an intruder and the clericalism of the Crown was what caused the rapid spread of liberalism and the consequent overthrow of the Monarchy...
...already passing to the radio. . . . People for whom we write have never seen us or heard our voices, and I often think a journalist in a city should be made to go around in a large cart as if in a circus and people would say, 'Great respect. Look...
After finishing high school he went to Chicago to get a job, and there ran into an old teacher of his who managed to get him into the University of Indiana. But Dreiser's year there was a failure, left him with little respect for formal education, which he regards as "a serviceable means of passing the time." Back in Chicago he worked in a hardware store, drove a laundry truck, changed jobs usually for the worse. But then he entered the lists of love, acquitted himself not so badly. That perked him up. The book (and his youth...
...candy at a specially reduced price, or else send a box of pansies--for only 35 cents". Other national days and weeks are usually perfectly innocuous or mildly amusing. Mothers' Day, obviously invented merely to capitalize the feelings of a sentimental populace, is manifestly distasteful to those who have respect, as well as love, for their mothers. The annual custom of Mothers' Day is one the date and very existence of which are annually forgotten by the public until resurrected by storedealers in early May. Complete oblivion would be more desirable...