In fact, Gertrude was so outraged when Sylvia began the publication of James Joyce's "Ulysses" that she called at Shakespeare and Company to inform Sylvia that thereafter she and Miss Toklas would borrow books only from the eminently respectable official American Library, on the Right Bank.
At this point I'm not sure what is more amusing: watching respectable elected officials parrot zombie talking points from the party that brought us the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression or watching so-called journalists mimic the charges without asking for proof.
"No respectable elected official is going to be influenced solely by campaign contributions," he said.
"The concept of creating a quasi-public corporation and having public officials and respectable private citizens serve on the board – that in and of itself is pretty normal," Mr. Mallach said.
And while passengers play the slots, bob their heads to the Jazzmanian Devils cover band and soak up the breeze and respectable amounts of rum, cruise officials carefully follow the voyage.
It boasts the 21st-largest stock market in the world, and its financial officials have managed a respectable rebound from the 2002 rout of the rand.
Making that trade legal would make the official figures look more respectable.
I know it's vain, but I spotted myself a couple of days to get to a more respectable "starting weight" before my first official weigh-in.
One team of statisticians working at the state education headquarters here recently calculated the official graduation rate at a respectable 87percentt, which Mississippi reported to Washington.
Then Vice President George Bush helped land him an unglamorous but respectable job in the Reagan White House in 1983 as liaison with elected state officials, former Reagan and Bush administration officials said.
