Word: rancor
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...Detroit for a summer of long arguments and resurrected rancor, Judge Patrick Thomas Stone brings a reputation for wit, geniality, and broad interpretation of the law. Now 47, big, baldish, he insists on being called "Pat," has long been a popular toastmaster in his home State. First Federal judge appointed by President Roosevelt, he was strongly supported by both Wisconsin labor organizations and local bar associations...
Theologically the 51st General Convention was stoutly low church. Sociologically it was, in the words of liberal delegates, "yes-but." Rancor flared only briefly during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Then the delegates drifted off home, leaving only a scattered 800 to gather in vast Convention Hall to hear the Pastoral Letter which always ends an Episcopal Convention...
Yacht races for the America's Cup in the 19th Century were customarily accompanied by bitterness and suspicion. That the tradition of rancor had stoutly survived the 31-year period in which the late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags...
...spoils, others dreaming mainly of doing great deeds. But there comes a time in every administration when dreamers fall out. Last week that time came to the Roosevelt Administration. The fact that it was caused largely by conflicting zeal among the President's followers did not dampen the rancor it produced...
...based occurred at Courrieres, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1906. When part of a mine on the French side of the border blew up. German miners from the other side came over to help rescue the imprisoned miners. International-minded Director Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down the shaft with gas masks...