Word: hating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, has done very well for himself. By the time he had finished school and college he saw how foolish he had been to hate them. Respectability pays. He learned the printer's trade, managed a Kansas politician's small-town newspaper, took his good manners to Kansas City and worked on the Star. He married a schoolteacher, got his own small-town newspaper, let his girth grow and joined the diligentsia. Eventually he made his voice heard all over the country. He has taken care not to get too slicked up; has preserved a certain loudness...
...President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued a conciliatory policy toward Italy, he signed an accord with Rome last year; and now Signor Mussolini and President Zogu of Albania had both double-crossed him. He was a numskull? so raved the press of Belgrade. Down with...
...Secretary Kellogg's scheme of settlement would give Bolivia a much-desired corridor to the sea and a port, the city of Arica. Then too, on the Morro promontory of Arica, Secretary Kellogg would like to see erected a monument to commemorate the healing of the Chile-Peru hate. Thus, everyone would be happy...
...University of Georgia and Georgia Tech have as good a hate for each other as Harvard and Princeton. First they fought over a pigskin and then they fought under the goal posts. Georgia U. won both. The football score: Georgia U., 14; Georgia Tech, 13. In many a university club Dartmouth graduates ordered ice as the reports of the third quarter were announced. They had Cornell 23 to 7. At the end of the fourth quarter, Cornell graduates filled their glasses. Score: Cornell, 24; Dartmouth...
...blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate, miscalled him. During that year he encountered, with unintentionally poignant results, the public and secret lives of nearly all the town-among others...