Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light her cigarettes (although he has gone halfway and presented her with a cigarette lighter). They have numerous, spirited differences of opinion. But despite the difference in their ages (she is 29) and the fact that both are competitors in a cutthroat business, each reflects pride, affection and great respect for the other. In a city noted for ill-concealed adultery, Bogart is famed as a faithful husband...
...actions in their stride, as part of their occupation. I think we broadcasters can afford a certain amount of the same stride in the face of our letter-writing, telegraph and telephone critics. If we are fair and responsible in our decisions, we will gain the approval and the respect of the large majority of the people...
...Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached...
...marketable product, and made a deal with E. Remington & Sons, manufacturers of guns and sewing machines, to produce his writing machine. Densmore hoped his typewriter would "become as important in the literary world as the sewing machine is in the stitchetary world," and Remington obliged, at least in respect to looks. The first Remington resembled a sewing machine right down to its treadle...
Professor Morison spoke before MacLeish. The distinguished historian charged his colleagues "to avoid acts, or associations that will bring our university into difficulties; to observe a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, even when these opinions of mankind, even when these opinions are erroneous and absurd; and above all, to avoid an attitude of smug superiority--the unforgivable sin in a democratic society...