Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience of Poles who had begun to weep: "We do not say to you: 'Dry your tears...
Last week the second volume dealing with the O'Neills did both. The best of James Farrell's books to date, No Star Is Lost is also his mellowest and most imaginative, has little of the rancor (so strong that it sometimes seemed Author Farrell hated all his characters and all their kin) that marred his previous novels. No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother...
...make the statement without rancor, that he worst enemy of the Theatre today is the people of the Theatre. Perhaps the producers are most to blame - the majority of them amateur or near-society dilettantes, night-club habitues, angel-backers and shoestring gamblers, (ith their slipshod, unmoral and, even worse, unprepared productions, messing up Broadway...
Left to play in their own backyard, the bankers followed a program carefully planned to keep political rancor out of hearing, focus attention on professional problems. For U. S. Banking, shifted off its old base by Depression and the New Deal, they considered reorientation. Most of the speakers at A. B. A.'s general sessions were businessmen, not bankers, invited to assist in this procedure...
...armaments race in Africa. The garrison in Libya [adjoining Egypt] will not be withdrawn until an entente in the Mediterranean can be brought about, but the whole force will be brought home as soon as the British ships are withdrawn. . . . We are not a people given to rancor...