Word: respects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next motive in importance was the desire to help the other men, and ten percent were sustained by thoughts of home and loved ones. Nine percent were held up by a feeling of duty and self respect...
...Says George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect and good will of most of his show's topflight guest stars, as well as its lesser workers...
...plane, which has been successfully tested, can also cruise as low as 27 miles an hour and makes less noise than an automobile. It looks like a conventional craft in every respect but the wings, which have slots in front and a big flap in back...
...York and Boston Munch had spectacular success, and, unlike many conductors, his success with the musicians was just as great as his success with his audiences. During his Philharmonic engagement the musicians spontaneously got together one afternoon and chipped in to present Munch with a gift symbolic of their respect and admiration. And after his last concert in New York, they honored him with a cocktail party, something which had been done only once before--when Toscanini finished his last season with the Philharmonic...
This comico-tragic instant brings to bear, like the point of a knife, the dilemma of 19th Century Jean Barois and the meaning of his story. It is the fulcrum of the cold, sharp "novel of ideas" which won Novelist Roger Martin du Gard his first critical respect when it was published in France in 1913. Martin du Gard went on to win a Nobel Prize (1937) for his masterwork, The Thibaults, a magnificent cycle of novels about French bourgeois life in the first two decades of the 20th Century...