Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services to the University and to education President Lowell has earned the highest possible esteem. Harvard men cannot dissociate from his name the lasting relationships of their education. Respect for him must go farther than a grateful acknowledgment of the progress of the University under his tireless guidance. A generation and more of Harvard men hold or President Lowell an affection that will endure long after the more transitory elements of the University as it is have dropped from mind. Only those men who develop a natural will to serve and ability to lead will be able even in small...
...been a painful nuisance to Avco and other ''pioneer'' operators with his low-fare Century Air Lines, his rambunctious efforts in Washington to get mail contracts. Avco took over Century, gave Mr. Cord 5% of the Corporation's stock. There were expressions of esteem on both sides. But the industry, aware of Mr. Cord as a shrewd, aggressive operator, accustomed to running things his own way, wondered how long it would be before an explosion occurred...
...American Legion last week plucked a large political thorn and handed it to the country. Convened in its 14th national convention the Legion, as expected, declared for full, immediate, unconditional payment of the Soldier Bonus at a cost of some $2,300,000,000 to the Treasury. Public esteem for the Legion throughout the land instantly, visibly ebbed, changed to alarm...
...little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face of an anonymous cinemaddict who is almost strangled by his amusement at the preview of Merton's picture, underscores the gesture...
Ever shrouded in discretion are proceedings of the French Academy, but each new "Immortal" is supposed to make a speech and his words are always released. Recently dapper General Max Weygand, "Savior of Poland" (1920) and successor in French popular esteem to the late, great...