Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanfstaengl, sister of his friend "Putzy"; Frau Winifred Wagner, widowed daughter-in-law of the composer; Margaret Slezak, daughter of a Viennese tenor; the Realmleader's late niece Greta Granbald; and the German cinema's lithe-limbed Leni Riefenstahl, who was quoted as having said with utmost respect of Adolf Hitler, "The Realmleader could not love except platonically." (TIME...
...Walsh probably exaggerated the obstacles the oath placed in the way of his freedom, but the nuisance value of the measure was clearly stressed by all the witnesses. President Neilson gave it its truest appraisal when he said that such legislation does more than anything else to undermine respect for the laws of the Commonwealth and the legislature that makes them. The move for repeal of the Oath Bill is a battle against obscurantism and indifference. The latter enemy, at any rate, was severely wounded yesterday by the belligerence of the Massachusetts universities, who now, no more than ever, desire...
...British institutions, which refused the invitation, not for lack of scholastic respect, but because they insisted on dragging politics in, lost an excellent chance to express their disapproval by honoring an institution which, as they well know, has opposed the same policies they condemn. But politics should not enter...
...Sovereign was also graciously pleased last week to make a precedent-shattering decision with respect to British stamps. Ever since the first British adhesive stamp was issued in 1840, the likeness of the Sovereign has been a head-&-neck. Experts of the Post Office have maintained that to show the Sovereign at waist-length or full-length on anything so small as a stamp would be to shrink the royal likeness until it was virtually unrecognizable, even in the case of a Sovereign with a distinctive beard...
...against the Press's desire for newsworthy pictures, it seemed probable last week that most citizens would sympathize with the President's insistence on respect for his privacy and dignity. But on one score news photographers have repaid his past graciousness in full. Just as mention of his lameness in print is ordinarily avoided, so no Press photograph or cinema newsreel ever shows Franklin Roosevelt rolling in his wheelchair or walking awkwardly with the aid of his stick...