Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbus, Ohio, Frank Lane, president of baseball's American Association, ruled that a baseball player can swear at an umpire if the profanity 1) is used in a casual manner, 2) is not heard in the stands, and 3) does not cause the ump to lose his self respect...
Other Chinese besides the bureaucrats who missed their lunch were pained by this incident. It violated the cherished Confucian precepts of self-discipline and respect for rulers and elders. Yet this was contemporary China-the China of uncompromising civil war and unlimited inflation (last week the cost of living in Tientsin was 16,790 times as great as before the war). This was the disordered China which made even sympathetic Americans say "To hell with that mess; let's keep...
...There are only two occasions," observed Herbert Hoover, "when the American people respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing so some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies...
...theater snacks, he confabbed with RKO Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century-Fox Boss Spyros Skouras, who is an old friend, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect. As one shrewd U.S. movieman said: "Rank is one of the seven or eight key men they are counting on over there to pull them...
Stalin: I am at your disposal. We Russians respect our guests...