Word: animus
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Easterners in (say) Santa Fe, N. Mex., putting down a five-dollar bill for a pack of cigarets are likely to receive four large round silver dollars in their change. No animus is intended-Southwesterners are used to the silver dollars-solid, tangible, clanking evidence of wealth. A man with ten silver dollars weighting down his pockets may always be pleasantly conscious of his solvency. But Easterners and the U. S. public in general have not taken kindly to the silver dollars which are deemed cumbersome, termed "cartwheels,"' given with apology, received with reluctance...
...Floor. The Senate confusion grew even worse. Senator Ernst, Republican of Kentucky, produced a telegram from Mr. Mellon saying that he had received the memorandum just a day before it had been sent to Mr. Couzens. Mr. Ernst accused Mr. Couzens of animus against the Secretary. Mr. Couzens replied, accusing Mr. Ernst of being in league with the Treasury to defeat the ends of the investigation, even of having connived in the disappearance of important letters. Mr. Ernst said he didn't hear and asked Mr. Couzens to repeat. Mr. Couzens refused. Then Senator Glass, ex-Secretary...
...fact that the Visitors did not approve of the plan. "Yet," he went on, "this plan of affiliation . . . is, I submit, as nearly as possible just what the original donors of these funds would most have desired, had it been possible in their lifetimes. Those donors had no animus against Harvard...
...degraded piece of work, is worthy of comparison with the finest confessions of the soul of all time. I feel it is about time for Jews to stop carrying chips on their shoulders. Through the ages they have preserved their inferiority complex.' As proof that I hold no animus against the Jew, I pointed out that I had just published a translation of Silbermann by Jacques de Lacretelle, a novel passionately defending...
Messrs. Terry and Young examined 289 high school seniors in a city on the Pacific coast for traces of ignorant animus against the Japanese, and found that half these students believed war between Japan and America to be inevitable, while only a third denied this or thought war to be conditional on the behavior of the two nations. The significant fact is that the reasons in the first case tended to be of a primitive nature, while in the second case they indicated intelligence and-more important-information. The moral is: Inform, the assumption being that knowledge is the chief...