Word: detestation
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...fundamental fault in modern poetry is its lack of morality. In presenting this thesis in his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1929-30, here published, Professor Garrod does not shrink. To tell a world of poets who detest the touch of morality when they grope in the dark for the hand of beauty that the weakness of their work is their own attitude requires, if not courage, conviction and firm bases...
...detest those statistician hounds who put things end to end and stretch them across the country, so don't publish this if it's going to start the pack off in full...
Upton Sinclair?"Whether you admire or detest his aggressive Socialism. . . . He is internationally better known than any other American artist...
Revise to Avoid Wat. Finally II Duce hurled at his French enemies the doctrine they most heartily detest. "Our policy of revision of the treaties [i. e. Versailles, Trianon, St. Germain, Neuilly] . . ." he said, "aims at avoiding war. The revision of the peace treaties is not prevailingly of interest to Italy, but interests the whole of Europe and the whole world. Revision is not absurd or impossible, since the possibility of revision is contemplated in the Covenant of the League of Nations. The only absurd thing is to expect treaties to remain absolutely immobile...
Anti-vivisectionists detest the American Medical Association, which swats them as though they were annoying horse flies. Mrs. Jeanie McCredie Matile of Chicago meant no pun when she declared that there was "a steadily growing revolt against the dogmatism of the A. M. A. by its own members." Dr. Alonzo Eugene Austin, Manhattan homeopath, occasional physician to John Davison Rockefeller Sr., not a member of the A. M. A., testified: "If it were necessary to tie these little animals down to get our experience of how to cure people, I'd give up the medical profession tomorrow. I have...