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Calisthenics, which Dorothy Thompson knocked a few days ago, were disapproved by Colonel Whittaker as well, although he made it clear that this is not the Army's opinion. "The men resent these calisthenics more than any other part of Army life, and could get just as much physical benefit from the obstacle course and field exercises that we have at Camp...
...paying his taxes, one Fred Walker of Alford, Lincolnshire, swore at the tax collector. Last week, under a law passed in 1745, Fred Walker was fined. The law holds that persons who resent paying their taxes may be fined one shilling if they are day laborers, two shillings if they are below the rank of gentleman, three to five shillings if they are gentlemen. Fred Walker's fine: two shillings...
...decent Southerner either supports or condones lynching. A steady rise of public opinion has resulted in the number of lynchings dropping to none or one or two a year. But those same decent Southerners rightfully resent this type of interference from outside sources...
...lion-feeding time. A smart literary tradesman, Feuchtwanger dresses up his vast windows on the past with a brilliant, meticulous reconstruction of Roman society in the iridescent stages of dissolution. His characters he treats with a superior irony which his devotees deeply admire, but in which others sometimes resent a rather rabbinical roguishness...
...effort to provide an adequate supply of pilots for the war and for an enlarged civilian service later on, Congress has decided to enlarge the resent program, Emmons revealed. Although the exact direction that this expansion will take has not yet been determined, it is possible that the scholastic requirements for admission will be relaxed to allow high school students to enroll...