Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his older sister-in-law. Eliane, just shivering on the verge of old-maidhood. Eliane knows Philip better than he knows himself, knows also all about her sister's lover, does not resent Philip being cuckolded because she loves him herself. Her minute caretaking of him gets on Philip's nerves, but it never occurs to him why she does it. At last Eliane, unable to stand the situation any longer, goes off to a boardinghouse. Philip finds her there, seems agitated, wants...
...rule of big-league baseball prohibits players on the field from talking to anyone in the stands. It is intended to discourage gamblers from getting information from the players. Baseball players resent the rule because it prevents what used to be a pleasant pastime-chatting with relatives or admirers while practicing before the game. Last week there occurred two notable infractions of the grandstand talking rule...
...anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot even resent criticism of the movement now, for I realize that to do so is pride on my part...
...friends and will be very happy to stand solidly with them." When the same supporters informed him that word was going around that he himself was not "available" because of his religion and that his candidacy was only a "stalking horse" for Governor Roosevelt, Mr. Smith retorted: "I resent any whispering campaign that I am working in the interest of another candidate. That is false and would be a betrayal of my friends. I thank you especially...
...story of our foreign loans is a sordid tale, grotesque and tragic. ... In the investigation there were disclosed certain ugly facts which enabled us to understand and resent what has been done to the investing American public ... a dazed people whose pockets have been picked. . . . The utterly unrestrained duping of investors, the smug complacency of the great financial prestidigitators are all shown. . . . The sale of foreign securities was not only unrestrained by our Government but the peculiar system adopted by the State Department enabled international bankers to foster sales and convey the impression that their securities were satisfactory...