Word: resentational
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service man and resent such implications, and if your editorial is the general opinion of what the men at Harvard think of the Legion. . . I want nothing to do with Harvard. But I know that the real patriotic men of Harvard do not hold your vien. You probably were not old enough to have seen service in France but from your editorial I doubt if you would have offered your service to the cause. A. L. Haucock, Council Bluffs, lowa...
...nearest the President came to answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...past seven years supervising their school of 300 pupils, 92% of which are of Finnish extraction. Let your representative learn the same lessons I did, then you change your comment of this industrious people, and refer to none of them, not even a house servant, as being stupid! Finns resent such comment. You erred and used poor judgment when you published it. Lest you err again, permit me to advise that you use care never to call them Finlanders. Their trusty weapons of former days-the keen-edged Puukko knife-often slashed the person guilty of far less than what...
...ended by doing everything he could to strengthen the Anglo-Russian-French entente. He foresaw Germany's menace to England, but even during the War, "he was incensed by the theory . . . that Germany had provoked the War. . . . He was appalled by the Treaty of Versailles. Particularly did he resent the paragraph which obliged Germany by force to admit that she was solely responsible for the War. He considered that paragraph both undignified and meaningless...
...statement: "I have welcomed the opportunity of coming to this investigation. I've especially invited the opportunity because there has been in the public press and in the questioning here the impression that drugs are being used in an improper manner in the institution, which I deny and resent. ... I probably use as few narcotic drugs [chloral is not a narcotic] as any man in the profession...