Word: qualm
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...wish to make it plain, however, that we are not here in the interests of any banker in the U. S.," announced Senator Wheeler on arrival. But the Montana Democrat, who championed the "death sentence" for utility holding companies without a qualm for stockholders, almost wept for "the small investors who put their life savings into the Public Works bonds because of their confidence in Cuba's honor & integrity...
Errett Cord is 37. slim, medium height with brown hair and eyes. Except when he puts on his steel spectacles and looks like a young college professor he is undistinguished. He is a voluble talker with small regard for grammar and no qualm about profanity. He pays small attention to the detail of his business but thinks and talks plans and policies incessantly. He and his whole company believe in using the telephone long & often. The company's bill sometimes runs between $15,000 and $20.000 a month. Mr. Cord's right-hand man is tall, blond Lucius B. Manning...
...April 20. I wish you would print the facts of the fiend being found and properly punished, which in my estimation deserves the same treatment he gave the poor dog. I might add that I could do the punishing myself, I believe, and not feel a qualm at his suffering. As you can understand I am fond of dogs, have seen so much of their intelligence and this treatment of a dog, no matter what kind or where, has made me wish to know that the party responsible is caught and not given a fine, but a severe punishment...
Leverson Hurle (Somerset Maugham), struggling but coming writer, had cast off his faithful mistress Lizzie with hardly a qualm, and when he got a job as secretary to rich, eccentric Mr. Stoddard, filled in his spare time by seducing his employer's wife. When the affair was discovered, Hurle was considerably annoyed, but finally married Mrs. Stoddard because she had money and position, both of which he badly needed. Then he climbed to fame. Every year brought him bigger royalties, more acquaintances, fewer friends. "He used people without any sort of scruple: accepted their hospitality and kindness...
...high indignation, relatives of the kidnaped élite of Megntzu wired qualm-wracked Governor Hu, blamed him, demanded that he pay the ransom...