Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...magazine that in these days of worry stops for a second to pay homage to a poet deserves the respect of all its readers...
...couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a devastating logic. George Catlett Marshall, who inspired some of the same kind of respect, jumped when Stimson beckoned...
...with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they find quite unforgivable-Decent Feeling. Behind all the bluster and cursing and fisticuffs he has an elementary sense of chivalry-respect for women, pity for the weak, love of honor-which keeps breaking in. There is a form of high supercilious caddishness which is all the rage nowadays in literary circles. That is what the critics seek in vain in this book, and that is why their complaints are so loud...
...that cradle of jazz, the sporting house. But unlike flamboyant, razor-handy Jelly Roll Morton, Joplin was, as one old friend recalls, the kind of man who "never hurt anybody. A kitten could knock him down. He wasn't much socially, but most everyone had a lot of respect for Scott because he never threw himself away...
...respect two things colon...