Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the title of "Les Majeste. I feel as many others of your readers do, to my knowledge, that such discreditable rubbish is a distinct reflection upon the good taste of your subscribers as well as yourself and is an act of disloyalty which it is our duty to resent. The article seems to me to be the quality of the stuff which is characteristic of a yellow journal but entirely out of character for your magazine and its editors...
...Borah: "Yes, there is scarcely any vice human nature has such that the particular person who possesses it does not resent the fact that the law prohibits or inhibits him from enjoying...
Mayor C. A. Tetley of Farmington said: "I remember Asbury as a boy here, and he seemed like any other young chap. I think he must have got a little out of balance since he left Farmington. We resent chiefly the aspersion cast on all** the women of Farmington...
...such remarks was not understood when they reached Italy. What Italian realizes that Senators with many Klan constituents are apt to see in any settlement favorable to Italy a favor to the Pope? What Italian stops to remember that Senators with numerous German-American constituents are obliged to resent Mussolini's recent anti-German threats concerning the Tyrol? (TiME, Feb. 15, ITALY...
...curb. "Jixie! Jixie, sir?" cried the driver. Scandalized, the Carlton's imperious doorman motioned this hawker of transportation to move on, summoned the Home Secretary's motor. Frigid with annoyance, Sir William Joynson-Hicks rolled away. At least he appeared frigid. He is popularly supposed to resent the nickname "Jix" applied to him by vulgar plebs. He is alleged to resent still more the evolution of "Jix" into "jixie," based upon the fact that as Home Secretary he has been obliged to take the responsibility for granting licenses to London's 500 new two-seater cabs...