Word: hatefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some gatophobes commit felicide. They belong to the middle stratum of cat-haters. Others so morbidly hate & fear cats that they are too paralyzed by one's presence to be able to kill it. More normal and far more numerous are those gatophobes whose comparatively mild aversion to cats finds expression only in "s-s-scatting," throwing shoes, occasional kidnapping...
...hate to eat, myself, but I think you boys over in Cambridge ought to be allowed to drink beer in the Dining Halls. Why, the Cambridge crow in England trains on it, and they win lots of races. How do I know? Oh, I've heard all about it. Personally I don't like it, or that is, I don't think I would. You see, I really don't imbibe in that way. I want to be the same as the First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt, and let other people have it, but not touch it myself...
...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...
...place that had a big front with a sign 'Money to Loan' and bought a gun for $8," Joe Zangara, 33, native of Calabria, Italy, onetime bricklayer in New Jersey and last week a blurry-minded transient in Miami, thought to himself: "My stomach, it hurts. I hate all Presidents. I kill them." He had pondered the possibility of killing President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which he got from the pawnshop without...
Before Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made a name for himself as a satirist of U. S. civilization he was a romancer and writer of romantic verse of the also-ran variety. The unromantic world, which dampens many high enthusiasms, turned his to hate. Because he was a good hater and because he gave a name to two U. S. phenomena- Main Street and Babbitt-that were crying for a name, the public finally applauded him and prizes came his way. But Sinclair Lewis is still, as he has always been, a romantic, an enthusiast. Though cynics say that if you want...