Word: self-respect
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...Power," the story of Jew Suss (Conrad Veidt) and a race oppressed, makes a strong bid for high honors as a second feature. Paying with wealth, self-respect and happiness as the price for power, Mr. Veidt presents a forceful character beautifully portrayed...
...taste to speak of a professor from another great university as "haranguing" an audience, before the fact; it is simply misrepresentation to describe Professor Lovett as you have, and to omit all reference to the meeting at Harvard. In behalf of good journalism and its own self-respect, the "Crimson" should correct the inaccuracies left in the minds of its readers by this editorial. W. N. Chambers...
With great earnestness, no sense of humor, an entirely undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling...
When a foreigner is promoted over his head to the position of plat foreman, Frank joins the legion. Once he becomes involved the cannot back out try as he may. Disgusted and frightened, he goes from bad to worse, losing first his wife and then every vestige of self-respect. Finally, tortured almost to madness, he shoots his best friend to whom he has blurted out his connection with the Legion...
Recommendation: This worker has no self-respect nor any for his wife. His salary is a detriment instead of a help...