Word: rancor
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...sport, if every judge that I have heard condemned to the bonfire here in America had gone his way then and there, there would be about three competent fencers left in America-and those merely because they have always been too canny to act as judges! No; rancor over a judicial decision is nothing for a "man to man" contestant to become greatly existed about nor, in that case, anyone else either...
...befits the world's most eminent democrat, M. Clemenceau lives sim- ply. We lunched and dined in the kitchen. He is at peace with mankind. His soul and heart know no rancor. He is attending to his garden, as all great statesmen of France do when their public service is ended...
...Pike returns with the verdict that Saavedra does suppress the press, that he does incarcerate his political disputants, that, in short, he is a tyrant; but also that none of these things is regarded as indecent in Bolivia, and that most of his victims await, without rancor, their opportunity to return to Bolivia to do unto Senor Saavedra as he did unto them...
...fact, a little oasis of peace where the mind can recuperate from all Modern and Vital Questions?where it can even laugh at them without rancor. All out of a country library, in the shade of an. appletree...
...South, the Civil War showed the people that states rights are not supreme," said Mr. Upshaw, "and, although a whole generation passed before the rancor completely died out of their minds, the secessionists there learned their bitter lesson well and are now standing firmly behind the Federal Government and the Constitution of the United States. If the were not so foolish it would appear highly amusing to see Massachusetts, one of the leaders both in the establishing and the holding together of the Union, now by an act of her legislature, and with the approval of her public officials...