Word: detestability
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...pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...Ramsey Macdonald, British Labor Leader, in a recent number of the Socialist Review animadverts upon riotous behavior in the House of Commons: " I detest these scenes. One heated furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...democracy and justice. It was conceived in that spirit. We want Americans to know the facts of our situation that they may be true to themselves and find a just solution for our relations. But so far as this war is concerned, there is no division among us, we detest German tyranny and arrogance, and we will give good account of ourselves in actual voluntary military co-operation with the United States. PEDRO ALLUZU Y CAMPOS...
...should be sufficient proof that beer is desired when not a drop remains at the end of the smokers. Have those who prefer beer ever objected to the serving of ginger ale or sarsaparilla? Yet there are some who detest both these drinks even as greatly as some detest beer...
...This was the situation while the slave states were seceding one after another, and while politicians and capitalists were counseling submission to the claims of the slaveholders, in order to retain them in a Union which they had grown to detest, because they no longer controlled its central government. But when the northern states saw the south rushing into rebellion against our government, in order to set up an aristocracy of color and section, that deep instinct of self-preservation brought the north almost unanimously together in defense of the imperiled nation. Its instantaneous effect was to scatter the temporizing...