Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a story that he hopped with vexation upon receiving, in Poland, a letter from Mrs. Hoover from California saying that out of respect for the new Prohibition law, she had taken a lot of wines given them by Stanford University and poured them away in the garden...
With all the persuasiveness of the eminent advocate that he is, Mr. Root made much of the preliminary exchange of views, declared the U. S. could not be "frank and sincere" if it refused them. Said he: "We only have to tell what our interest is out of decent respect for mankind. The press will want to know, the people will want to know, why the U. S. put a stop to proceedings aimed at obtaining peace. ... Of the 16 advisory opinions handed down so far by the Court, not one has come within gunshot of our interests...
...18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations," the Commissioners sought to preserve their self-respect by appending to the joint Report their separate, personal opinions and convictions...
...couldn't see my mother lose her home. ... I made five or six payments. . . . It's hard to see a girl like Clara with everything and no respect for anything." Secretary de Boe sometimes paid out her own funds for her employer's liquor. At frequent intervals she brightened the famed red shade of her employer's hair. Miss Bow, she said, liked to play poker six nights a week, generously bought watches, rings for her men friends, of whom Miss de Boe mentioned five - Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Harry Richman, Dr. Earl Pierson, Rex Bell...
Part of the confusion is due to lack of frankness. The public schools do not say what they really think of business: business leaders and it necessary to talk of the public schools in the phrases of traditional but often exaggerated respect. In the interests of a better understanding we shall state in this and other articles some of the hindrances we have found to the enlistment of a larger number of public school boys...