Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funerals continue extravagant, the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care reminded the country last week. Original investigation occurred three years ago. Reasons for extravagance: 1) the family wants to show respect, satisfy conventions, or "impress the neighbors"; 2) the funeral industry is wasteful and unorganized. Funerals cost least in the South, most in the East. Cheapest are Orthodox Jewish funerals (a pit, a plain, loose casing), average cost...
...assuring statement (TIME. Oct. 27). Last week he again surveyed the Southern situation, made no grimace at the wreckage. Long associated with banking and industry in the South is Governor Black, whose reputed facial resemblance to Andy Gump of the funny papers amuses rather than bothers him. Heard with respect was his announcement last week...
...maintained one of the finest traditions that Harvard knows. It is not a custom built upon the wavings of banners, sporadic enthusiasm, nor even upon the roots of time; it is deeper than any or all of those; a tradition that has endured through the possession of a mutual respect and understanding...
...happen in Japan all the time. That is nothing. It happens all the time." "What are you going to do in this country?" finally asked the exasperated newshawks. With great dignity the Scion of Shoguns replied: "I am going to Washington to pay to President Hoover a visit of respect. My first visit to the United States was in 1882. This is my fourth visit. In 1921, when I was a Japanese delegate [he was chief delegate] to the Washington Conference, I met Mr. Hoover who was then Secretary of Commerce...
...conveniences for study and lectures are obviously well enough done to be worthy of imitation, but these are not characteristics peculiar to the Fogg Museum alone. The museum is unique in its close coordination between instruction in the history of art and the exhibits in its galleries. In this respect it differs from most college museums, which are apt to be nothing but repositories for all material accumulated by gifts or haphazard purchase regardless of its illustrative value. In marked contrast to the heterogeneous mixtures of good, bad, and indifferent creations of past ages usually seen in such exhibits, there...