Word: hating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that woman is his superior (leaving out politics and business) inasmuch as woman's brain is keener, woman is more subtle and a woman can read a man's mind like an open book. Men get their ideas, their inspirations, their ambitions from women, but how they hate to admit...
...preparing to sail for a four-month African hunting trip with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson. Commissioned by his curators to bring back, among other specimens, four medium-sized young elephant bulls or cows, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant. ... I hate to think of killing one of those magnificent animals...
...bronzed individual, as of class of '33, waggled a steel drive at an imaginary golf ball. "I can tell you one thing: I'll certainly enjoy business more than books. If there's anything I hate, it's to sit down and study the theory of economics. I may come back next spring and have another stab at the general, but I doubt it. Hey, where's my putter...
...planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate an interesting character study of a War ace who shoots himself because he despises the business of killing human beings whom he has no reason to hate. When he gets a chance, Fredric March-a conscientious, intelligent rather than a brilliant actor-makes the growing emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which he can do nothing to escape, seem immensely credible and vivid. The incident in the story by John Monk Saunders...
...unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes him feel that to do so would be despicable. The lieutenant therefore brutally and gallantly insults his inamorata-to make her hate him-and then dies a hero's death by driving his boat, loaded with explosives, into an enemy fortification-much after the manner of two of the principals in Today We Live. All this is as implausible as it is fancy, hut what is neither implausible nor fancy...