Word: respective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Aguinaldo is a warm supporter of Governor General Leonard Wood and his able administration, and because of this wise course Aguinaldo will not only enhance the respect in which he is held by the American people but he will very effectually offset the attacks made upon the Governor General by self-seeking politicos...
...quickly came to be perceived that Mr. Stephenson's nominees seldom lost. He conducted campaigns with just the right combination of lavishness and precision; the Mayors of three important Indiana cities looked on him with great respect and the members of legislative committees called at his home before the day's session to see which bills were to be passed. To his legislators he gave orders rather than suggestions, but when he wrote to his Mayors he was careful to phrase his wishes in terms of a larger and collective power, the will of the Klan...
...have a duty to accomplish. I have orders to respect. I have taken upon myself an engagement to give material and moral grandeur to the Italian people. That order, that supreme duty was not given to me by petty lawmaking-assemblies or by political circles, more or less clandestine. It was conferred upon me-and the heritage is sacred by reason of all the Fascists fallen in battle-by all, or almost all, the Italian people...
Less scurrilous was the examination of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan. With murderous sarcasm Dr. Little was found competent in respect to his athletic, religious and social qualities, but wanting in that he is a biologist, a "loud" approver of birth control and one who had "publicly declared that compared to Oxford, Harvard wasn't so much. . . ." Besides, if Dr. Little was the chosen one, why had Dr. Lowell not yet resigned...
...figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted of great green forests with scarlet birds and swinging animals . . . enchanted cream-colored people looked down from gilded frames within the house. . . . Why were no bronzed people like Mammy pressed into frames? Adrienne knowns nothing of her parents. For many years her love, fear, and respect centre in Mammy, who seems to know everything. This mysterious Mammy is Selina, famed San Francisco blackmailer, half Negro and half Sinclair. On her 17th birthday, Adrienne discovers the story of her parentage; meets the mighty Kajetan who promises her empires, leaves her with nothing. Then she finds a youth...