Word: rancor
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...Orissers deals with the duality of man's nature -with the subsconscious conflict, continually active, between what people imagine themselves to be and what they really are. The author is a psychologist and attempts throughout to display the genuine impulses and personalities of his characters with as little rancor or partiality as possible...
Incidentally, and wholly without rancor, we cannot see where Harvard and Yale men are so much more unforgetful than the great majority of other college graduates. Back in the dim recesses of memory we seem to hear echoes of "Good old College days"-and "When we were boys together in X--", and the like. Still, hallucinations are very possible in these advanced days of spiritism...
...from his opponents. But inasmuch as the organization is non-partisan, there is no reason why any American should refuse to contribute, provided he believes that the conferring of awards for distinguished service to humanity would be desirable, and provided, also, that he does not carry personal or partisan rancor to the point of unwillingness to have Woodrow Wilson's name associated with the undertaking. Probably there are persons who are conscious of this unwillingness. They are not likely to contribute. There are certainly some persons who honestly oppose any co-operation of the liberal forces of mankind...
...attention has been brought to an article on the Boston Police Strike by one Arthur Warner, which appeared in "The Nation" during the recent Christmas recess. Says Mr. Warner: "I found that partisanship and rancor had permeated almost every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...
...purposes in organizing such a committee, would probably be to decide all questions arising between the athletic organizations of the different colleges; as these questions could not always be settled to the satisfaction of all parties, just as much ill-feeling and rancor would result as under existing methods of settlement...