Word: respective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedroom to which they were instantly admitted. The bed was snowed under with newspapers, and amid them sat a young man in blue and white pajamas, whiffing energetically at an after-breakfast cigaret. The reporters bowed deferentially, for this was one of the few species of humanity that reporters respect-a talented member of their own calling, a reporter risen to publisher...
...called him a coward . . . offered to demonstrate that the wrist under a slave bracelet may snap a real fist into his sagging jaw and teach him respect for a man even if he prefer to keep his face clean. . . . This is not publicity. He overstepped all bounds of decency and right thinking. I will go back to Chicago and give him what he deserves. Only one thing can prevent it-he may be feeble, or old, or too young. . . ." Once more the head was bent. "I am waiting," said Mr. Valentino...
...wedded him to the glorious cause of carving an African empire for La Patrie, with words that made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor had been developed on the famed playing...
...university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those who know nothing whatever about it." The $11,000,000 realized by the sale of the paper is all to be used to buy art works for Kansas City. It is perhaps fortunate that the men who are paying it-Irwin Kirkwood...
...this respect his desires are fulfilled. Just as Mathematician Charles L. Dodgson quite vanished behind Lewis ("Wonderland") Carroll, so Political Economist Dr. Leacock is concealed- save where the solid metal of sense frequently thrusts through the dazzling enamel of nonsense- behind the author of Literary Lapses, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, etc., etc. These books, he modestly says, are "of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter...