Word: rancore
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...Armitage and friends were Roman Catholics. Mayor Duvall's defenders have accused Mr. Armitage's brother, James Duvall, a state witness, of perjury inspired by rancor against Klannish Mayor Duvall. Mayor Duvall's prosecutors ascribe the ill success of his corrupt practices to the fact that he was "trying to play both ends against the middle...
...Significance. Nowadays it takes a mental eye of high velocity detail, the myriad activities of knowing young Manhattanites. There are so many things to do and everything is done so quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary...
...this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud...
Meanwhile, not all U. S. hearts still throbbed as one in affection for Colonel Lindbergh. At Dayton, Ohio, rancor still dwelt among the populace whom the flyer last fortnight "affronted" by driving through Dayton's back streets to visit Orville Wright, ancestor of aviation. Though Colonel Lindbergh had repeatedly explained his visit was wholly "unofficial" and had begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald...
...Significance. Of the many moods subtly fused into this book, the predominant mood is one of satire. Too wise to bear any rancor, too polite to make her rudeness obvious, Author Warner ever so softly annihilates Christian idiocies. Her weapons are neither rapiers nor bludgeons. They are satin sofa-pillows which she tosses laughingly but with accuracy. Breaking when they land, her missiles leave the recipient white and ridiculous with feathers. In prose as easygoing, as smooth and level as a buzzard's flight, she matches her astute intelligence with a fancy as varied as it is engaging...