Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month and addressed an audience of cultured women he would have been almost unrecognizable to his Oklahoma friends. His diction was as correct as his clothes. His shoes were shined; a white handkerchief bobbed from his breast pocket; gone was the old sweat-stained felt hat. He won respect and admiration. Such is his showman...
Besides this desire to improve the academic mind, the action of the University shows that it is guarding the ancient, profound, and typically American respect for the law. The pursuit of happiness is man's inalienable right: to get caught for its obviously unpatriotic...
...fond notion that has been hovering in my mind these many years, and I do therefore hereby bequeath the books which I used in writing on Cromwell and Friedrich to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, City of Cambridge State of Massachusetts, as a poor testimonial of my respect for that alma mater of so many of my Trans-Atlantic friends and as a token of the feelings above indicated towards the Great Country of which Harvard is the Chief School...
...might be supposed that such antics would only be accomplished, without loss of face, by a low grade buffoon with small respect for his calling. Such is not the case. They are performed here by Will Rogers and become a typical Rogers product, amiable, offhand, bourgeois, amusing...
Menuhin has kept this respect for the Masters. He studies now only from original texts (in German the Ur-texts), works out by himself the composer's own bowings & markings. When a Swiss doctor was about to remove his appendix, he went under ether asking for the Ur-text of Bach. "Bach alone, unedited," he said, "is so perfect, so satisfying...