Word: abhor
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...national festival or Eisteddfod of Wales politely honored a bleak, grey-mustached, sensitive man who as a youth polished cuspidors and the brass rail of Luke O'Connor's bygone saloon in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement which poetry would give...
...terms as Governor he turned on his old cronies, the buccaneers, with a fierce, forgetful hand. Once he wined and dined 17 of them, led them on to talk dangerously of what they had done, had them arrested as they left, hanged them all next day. Said he: "I abhor bloodshed, and I am greatly dissatisfied that in my short government I have been so often compelled to punish criminals with death...
...regards perfumed anesthetics (TIME, Feb. 22), the effects might not be as anticipated. Any scent, agreeable or otherwise, associated with an operation, would very likely be revolting if not nauseating, and the recovered patient very likely would abhor that odor for the remainder of his life. An anesthetic with no odor at all would probably be more agreeable...
...nearly broke Debs's heart. Cried he: "I abhor war!" To him it was purely a Capitalist fight. At Canton. Ohio, in June 1918 he shrilled loudest against the military policies of the U. S.. was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Law, of obstructing the Draft and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. His sentence: ten years in jail which the Supreme Court sustained unanimously in March 1919. First he was comfortably imprisoned at Moundsville. W. Va.. then transferred to Atlanta where he nearly died in confinement. President Harding freed him in December...
Flying to the rescue of oldtime nursery rhymes came Associate Professor Annie E. Moore who teaches a course in child literature at Teachers' College. Said she: "If there's anything I abhor, it's stories about children who accomplish wonders by eating cereal and spinach. . . . Until this story came out, I never knew she [Miss Duggan] and the Bureau of Educational Service existed in the college...