Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bontemps is considerable. He has the authentic skill of the novelist in choosing a theme likely to interest readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still to seek nowadays, since...
...distinguished parishioners, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, was absent on the day of his sermon. When she heard about it, Mrs. Harriman declared to the Press: "I'm glad I wasn't at the service. I might have got up and answered him then & there. I have deep respect for Bishop Manning, but I would like to call his attention to the fact that the first Episcopal church, near Cheshire, Conn, was built by a lottery. Bishop Seabury, grandfather of Samuel Seabury, conducted...
Cried Frank Buchman: "I challenge Denmark to be a miracle among the nations, her national policy dictated by God, her national defense the respect and gratitude of her neighbors, her national armament an army of life-changers. Denmark can demonstrate to the nations that spiritual power is the first force in the world. The true patriot gives his life to bring about his country's resurrection. All those who oppose God's control are public enemies...
...Then Europe will be ready for disarmament, the outlawing of gas. poison and incendiary bombs, long-range bombardment of cities, heavy guns and tanks and in general the humanizing of all new weapons of war. Thus, concluded Adolf Hitler, will come "a new Europe on the basis of mutual respect and confidence between sovereign States...
...Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt on the exchange in respect to the canal tolls...