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What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Trial of all who judged best In esteeming the love of a man.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

He was humiliated by this witness whom he could not deceive, and whom he could not help esteeming.

From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?

The average citizen may be excused for esteeming government at best but a haphazard affair, upon which his vote and all of his influence can have but little effect.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Wilson, Woodrow