Word: rancor
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...brought about by that primate of prudence, Anthony Comstock, whose vestments Reformer Sumner inherits. Mr. Comstock only succeeded in causing the Macfadden beauty show of 1905 to attract mobs that nearly burst Madison Square Garden. It was still an affair of tights?a source, perhaps, of some of the rancor in Mr. Macfadden's charges of fraud (which brought him libel suits totaling four millions) against the 1926 beauty contest at Atlantic City, held with scant emphasis on costume, by eminent bankers and businessmen...
...hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when farmers had such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped out many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance...
When the numerous princes, dukes, and counts fied the empire at the time of the revolution, there was no rancor between them and the people. It is only natural, therefore, that the sentiments of a large part of the nation today oppose the confiscation of this royal property and favor its restoration...
...Convention speech, he could have held political office; men in the Administration asked him politely would he like to be Minister to Germany ? Attorney General? Would he, sometime, care to run for President? Said he: "I do not believe in your God. . . . I do not wish to bring the rancor of religious discussion into politics. . . ." He gave lectures which brought him a vast fortune; he gave his money away. A famous man called his speech on "The Gods" at Cooper Union, N.Y., "the boldest, strongest, most vivid utterance of a century." But thousands of others were displeased with...
When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs...