Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emotion, not facts, carried the Prime Minister to magnificent success in the Abdication Crisis, and last week Intervener Stephenson explained his actions entirely in terms of most convincing British emotion. "I had not an ounce of respect left for Mrs. Simpson," he sturdily declared. "It was just that I was so much moved by the words of His late Majesty's broadcast...
...other years attempts have been made along the same lines, usually ending soon from lack of popular interest, but they have always originated in the Athletic Association and been pressed on the Yardlings from above. In this respect, the present plan is unique, having started among the students themselves...
Dean Gauss's comparison between the European and American attitude in this respect will doubtlessly delight the "bigger-and-better" gentlemen, but should make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...other groups for the purpose of weakening this particular union. . . . We hereby agree with you that within a period of six months from the resumption of work we will not bargain with or enter into agreements with any other union or representatives of employes or plants on strike in respect to ... matters of general corporate policy . . . without first submitting to you the facts of the situation and gaining from you the sanction of any such contemplated procedure as being justified by law, equity or justice toward the group of employes so represented...
...used to have a habit of looking down on illegitimate children," cried Nazi Ley. "It was an old-fashioned prejudice that has today become an absurdity. We must grant the unmarried mother, who bears a child as a result of natural healthy instincts, the same respect and the same protection as we grant married mothers...