Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...
Though Thomas Stearns Eliot is now the mummified god of a large school of present-day poetasters, where two or three literary lights are gathered together the name of another U. S. poet-expatriate is apt to be murmured with more respect. Less popular, less memorably chantable than Poet Eliot's neatly allusive threnodies, poems by Pound are trademarked by no less scholarship, by language that is both more violent and more obscure. A cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children, Pound has been given a wide berth by U. S. publishers...
...remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...
...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
...Those men who select Dunster House are social climbers, those who elect Eliot have already arrived, and those who choose Lowell don't give a hoot." The tone of the article composed for this morning's CRIMSON by Lowell's House Committee Chairman should serve to establish, in this respect, the attitude of at least a large number of his fellow Housemembers. The continual emphasis upon physical assets rather than upon social glories is only natural. But it fails to give the whole picture...