Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call your attention to an epithet "papists'" that one finds only on the lips and in the writings of bigots. We Catholics resent the characterization. I am sure you do not mean to be offensive but you will submit a little more care should be exercised...
Anyone who knows Ray Wilbur and his work must resent as I resent this "Yes man" [TIME, Feb. 11] implication. I am sure that time will reveal and TIME will publish news of Ray Lyman Wilbur which will prove the injustice of this imputation...
...Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. "Wrong, very wrong. The crude, untutored Hindu may resort to this expedient, but it is not done in professional circles among American snake experts. You will note that I use the more dignified term-"experts." We resent the name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special...
Good architects, like good doctors, resent publicity. There is nothing pretentious about the firm of Delano and Aldrich. The building in which they work, designing perhaps 30 mansions every year, as well as office buildings, schools and churches, is an old stable neatly rebuilt into studios and little rooms. At its front are some of the little round windows which, erroneously enough, have come to be regarded as identification discs upon the works of Delano and Aldrich...
Nominee Hoover spoke out: "Whether this letter is authentic or a forgery,* it does violence to every instinct that I possess. I resent and repudiate...