Word: detest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...statements if you must make them in place of queries. In this week's July 30 notice of Miss Terry are two errors. I. You will find that the father of her children was not Charles Wardell if you care to enquire. II. She did not '"detest" American audiences but adored them and they her. Henry Irving was more appreciated here even than in England therefore there is no base for such an assertion. Both Miss Terry and Irving deplored the fact that England did not appreciate Booth and when he failed there most pathetically, Irving made Booth...
...late I have been reduced to singing at some of the night clubs which I detest...
...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 condemnations...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...