Word: self-respect
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...great athletes to use their names to promote business projects is an accepted tradition of U. S. sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside...
...save our position among the states of the world, we must at least support the new Court. It is not altru- ism that I counsel. It is not helping Europe. It is not sacrifice for the general good. It is selfishness for America. It is our own national self-respect...
...responsibility", "general culture", "general orientation of the different branches of knowledge", "labor, determination, patience, courage, and independence of thought", "intellectual awakening", "the advantage of spending four years in a thoroughly democratic society", "the knowledge that the qualities of honesty, courage, chivalry, courtesy, and sportsmanship are the standards essential to self-respect and the respect of the other members of the community in which one lives," "the whole blend of intellectual and social influence...
...Faith without credulity, conviction without bigotry, charity without condescension, courage without pugnacity, self-respect without vanity, humility without obsequiousness, love of humanity without sentimentality and meekness with power...
...that he had served in the Austrain Army. Sometimes, when he played in U. S. cities, there were boos and catcalls jumbled with the applause; sometimes a disorderly hiss would interrupt his, music. In 1917, he canceled a concert tour, losing contracts worth $85,000. "I could not with self-respect accept U. S. money," said he. In an inimical country, he, an alien with a million friends, played only for charities until the War ended...