Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail was a letter from Governor Winant accepting his resignation: "I want you to know I respect your desire to accord special privilege...
...term for the age-old practice of hanging out one's window to watch parades, fights, riots, lovers, Yard cops, and other civil commotions. He was disturbed to discover that the lists of inmates are no longer kept, in fact addition of names ceased in 1912. Where is the respect for the ancestors, the elders, and why has the worthy practice been permitted to lapse at this, of all times, when Freshmen are to be awed by the knowledge of their predecessors are to be impressed with the desecration they commit...
...acquaintanceship with the basic principles which underlie the subject of real estate. It is designed for men who as brokers, agents, or operators expect to control real property, or who, in the capacity of investors, bankers, or trustees, are likely to be called upon to exercise their judgment with respect to investments in land...
...Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade but gulps women. A month with one is always enough to slake Reinhold's thirst; then he has a terrible time getting rid of her. Biberkopf helps...
...personal reason, he may write the kind of vindictive book that shocks the public into attention. Richard Aldington has done just that in The Colonel's Daughter. Banned by Smith's (big distributors) in England, banned by Ireland, but reviewed even by conservative London Punch with cold respect, The Colonel's Daughter should delight U. S. Anglophobes. for this British-written book about Britain is of the kind to make even Britishers wince...