Word: detestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compensation against his amiability." Even in tiny details he can find no dissonances in Roosevelt's harmonious blend of thought and action. "It is no accident," he declares, attesting Roosevelt's genuine sense of humor, "that this man should like scrambled eggs as a light dish, and detest the clayeyness and heaviness of bananas...
...than in anything else." Of German Americans, he estimated, only 1% are obtrusively Nazi. He calls the Germans "the most important, and most admirable, and generally loyal, but least lovable of all our foreign-language race groups." Poles, everywhere happy & contented, "dream at night of planting wheat and cabbages," detest Communism and Fascism as they do their hereditary enemies Russia and Germany. Among the White Russians of Westbury, Long Island, Seabrook was surprised to discover that not all Russian emigrés are married to U. S. heiresses...
...notice that the League cannot remain at Geneva if it loses its universal character. Reason: The neutral Swiss dare not let their country be used as base by any group for operating against another-not even by Democracy (favored by the Swiss) to oppose Fascism or Naziism (which they detest...
...said: We meet Britain. I beg those who are about to translate or murder my speech to note the difference between meeting Britain and clashing with Britain. . . . Britain is really living in the past in her judgment of Italy. She has a picturesque conception of Italy-a picturesqueness I detest. . . . In view of our common interests in the Mediterranean I believe it is possible to find a middle ground...
...John's head" and his full white beard combined to make him quite leonine. Children, whom he said he loved better than adults, called him "the little round gentleman." He preferred old clothes, hated stiff collars and all ties, and felt constrained in dress shirts. Especially did he detest fame and the limelight...