Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlesque Artists Association of the U. S. lost no time in sounding off in defense of the industry. "The first girl I ever spoke to in a theatre was a burlesque chorus girl," declared he, "and I married her and I'm still married to her. I resent the inferences that have been cast upon the people of burlesque. . . . Just remember, Dillinger was shot coming out of a moving picture theatre-not a burlesque house...
This meeting will open July 12 and will resent views of professional and lay leaders in the camp program and other adult education movements. Last year about 200 teachers in C.C.C. camps contend here for a shorter session, and are examined at the end of the conference given as a course...
...large Harvard men resent being propagandized more than anything else; they demand a two-sided presentation of thorny questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been made. It would not have been difficult to add to the list of speakers a rebel sympathizer who would dwell upon the Fascist solution of the Spanish struggle. It might even have been possible to advance one more step and invite a detached observer whose particular interest centered upon the international complications...
Hustling Los Angeles may not resent TIME'S omission (Nov. 9) of her port at San Pedro as the scene of idle ships in the current maritime dispute. But quiet San Diego would like it known that two, not 22, vessels were tied up at her docks at the strike's outset...
...poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict, but in a subtle resentment at intellectual slights, does Swinnerton reveal the hazards of his literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never...