Word: abhorent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...stopgap chancellor, however, he should do very well since he is a Roman Catholic and enjoys the support of the largest faction in the republic, the reactionary, Catholic "Christian Socialists" who abhor the late Karl Marx (see p. 53) as though he were Beelzebub...
...sake of little girls who abhor June bugs (May beetles) for their (supposed) pinching propensity and of farmers who detest them for the damage their grubs do crops, Department of Agriculture entomologists last week warned that the beetles will be unusually annoying this year throughout Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York...
Pious Mohammedans rightly abhor such of their brethren as are so hypocritical as to drink spirits with the alibi that they are not drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...
...however, found itself mistaken, for in the Syllabus of Errors of Plus IX, issued in 1864, it read among other interesting matters, such as the condemnation of freedom of the press, of separation of state and church, and of the public school system, the warning that all Romanists must abhor and detest such statements as these: that "every man is free to embrace the religion he shall believe true," or that "it is possible to be equally pleasing to God" in the Protestant as in the Catholic Church. The modern world might have stood in open mouthed surprise at these...