Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps this consideration would not prevent Congress from increasing rates so as to wipe out, at least partially, the second class deficit, were it not for the fact that the newspapers and magazines are run by human beings who very urgently resent any curtailment of their profits. The suggestions for raising second class postal rates have been generally confined to increases on the rates for advertising matter* on which publishers receive revenue; but the publishers are no whit appeased. Already, the press is crying aloud that it is abused, saying "the estimate of the second class deficit is too large...
...Chapman called the Bishop's attention to "the customary silence with which such statements by Roman pre lates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subversive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman curia, or even to call attention to them. The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education." Later in his letter, Mr. Chapman referred to the election, some years ago, of a Catholic (James Byrne, of Manhattan) as one of the seven Fellows of Harvard. "Under present conditions of Protestant speechlessness, the presence of a Roman Catholic...
...large class of American tourists, especially since the war, I am told, that fairly reek with bland self-righteousness and superiority. The people on the Continent are foreigners, to be shouted at and suspected and treated with high-handedness lest they presume too much; and, not unnaturally, the "foreigners" resent that attitude and react to it. This has nothing to do with the Olympic Games, but I cannot go past this point without saying that there were times in Paris and elsewhere this summer when I was actually ashamed of being an American!. And I have felt many times...
...historic learning of the Cardinal may be at fault; but it is not to this point that I would call attention, but rather to the customary submissive silence in which such statements by Roman prelates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subsersive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman Curia, or even to call attention to them. The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education...
...that food should not be in itself poisonous, 2) that it should be mixed with nothing that was not demonstrably helpful. "I do not object," said he, "to the use of cottonseed and sunflower oils as salad dressings by those who have a taste for them, but I resent paying 40c a bottle for these fats merely because they have been labeled olive oil. My battle is for the privilege of going free of robbery with a guarantee of health...