Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eulogy last week was Producer George Grouse Tyler's: "Mrs. Fiske was the last great actress of our period. . . . Not in this generation, perhaps not for several . . . will the theatre again have a figure of her stature. . . . She stood for values that are not held in high esteem now. . . . She had no poses, no vanities, no petty weaknesses...
While out esteem for the students of Yale, Harvard, Williams and Princeton masse is second to none, we have succeeded in authoritatively tracing not a few of the irresponsible occurrences which yearly seem inevitable at Carnival to gentlemen, so called, from these institutions. To these specific visitors who might more properly be termed visitations our esteem does emphatically not extend. Moreover, we, who have recently had excellent opportunity to review the duties of a good host, think it appropriate that visitors for future Carnivals-and they will be more than welcome-find an opportunity to review the obligations...
...days astutely looking over the political situation, focusses attention on the dynamic character, who not long ago employed such belligerent methods to raise the price of oil in Oklahoma. Whatever his political qualifications, Governor Murray undoubtedly possesses personal characteristics of a type calculated to raise him in popular esteem. His vigorous denunciation of international banking may lack some of the elements of sound criticism, but it goes straight to the heart of the average man who is bewildered and a bit suspicious about where his money goes. The farmer, always seeking for a champion, sees in "Alfalfa Bill" the product...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes has called forth from his colleagues praise so emphatic that comment upon it is superfluous. The final estimate of his legal achievements may safely be left to history, by those who prefer rather to recall the personal qualities which gave him his unique place in public esteem. More perhaps than any other man he has helped to maintain the historic dignity of the American bench...
...preparing for positions in education accounts in part for the relative poverty of the School in first-rate minds. For, in spite of education's noisy acclaim as the panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...