Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts in the case. In the first place it shows a misjudgment of the usual football audience. The number of spectators who are not attached either to Harvard or its opponent is relatively small. If the complaint is directed aganist the spectators directly interested, it shows an entirely unwarranted mistrust. Students, graduates, and their friends come to the game to witness a friendly contest in a spirit of mutual politeness, not to indulge in a free-for-all. On the other hand among the spectators who come merely to see a game of football, the number of those who make...
...meeting of a board of directors . . . I saw the glow of fanatical eyes over narrow cheeks. These cheeks are now fuller, the lips somewhat heavier; yet these eyes, which now search the depths of other mysteries, can still laugh gaily or shoot lightnings of mistrust...
...Fanatical eyes that shoot lightnings of mistrust...
...magnitude is worthy of the greatest effort and concentration on the part of those who meet in international amateur sport. They can achieve results which bring the people of various nations together on the firm ground of mutual understanding, appreciation and trust which goes far to eliminate jealousy, mistrust, and danger of war. To successfully achieve such a splendid and desirable objective raises International Tennis to lofty standards far more important than the game itself...
...administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky and speculative methods of Wall Street railroad amalgamation, whose excesses were justified only by their aggregate brilliant results, he had an inherent mistrust. He was a stubborn fighter but invariably a good loser. His resentment of the prohibition amendment, and his efforts for its repeal, were characteristic of his sturdy individualism...