Word: self-respect
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...Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that there are plenty of Republicans who will be glad to contribute from one dollar up to any reasonable sum, to clear their party of this humiliating stigma...
...Willis boom finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
...wants to lead a girl astray, he tries to get liquor into her so that she loses her senses and self-respect...
...only reason why there is not even more intermarriage is because the leading English Jews of former generations deemed it a matter of vital importance to create a distinctly religious atmosphere for their children, giving them a religious education that endowed them with a Jewish consciousness and a self-respect. Both they and their childen had the will to be and to remain Jews." Another of his observations: "The direct calamity which has befallen Judaism in the recent generations is the attempt of the Communists of Russia to strangulate the Jewish soul...
...They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...