Word: resentfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talents) and cast in her lot with a really good playwright, one George Bernard Shaw. But she stuck to Irving about as long as he needed her. Shaw admired her loyalty, never ceased to upbraid her wrongheadedness. Loud in his Brobdingnagian denunciations of Henry Irving, Shaw did not resent the fact that Ellen Terry had "many enduring friendships, some transient fancies, and five domestic partnerships of which two were not legalized...
While most bridge experts regard each other with ill-concealed contempt, the bridge expert whom others resent the most is Ely Culbertson. A pale young man with rings under his eyes, a slightly bald head, he was educated at the Sorbonne, married a bridge teacher after admiring the way she played a hard hand, now, with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point...
...same policy until about a year ago when, searching shrewd methods to combat Depression, producers hit on the scheme of making short advertising films which were paid for twice-first by the advertisers, second by cinemaddicts who paid to see them as entertainment. The scheme was bound to arouse resentment from other fields which combine advertising with amusement. It received its first public attack last week in the form of a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, made by Eugene W. Castle, head of Castle Films, a small independent Manhattan company which produces short industrial pictures. Producer Castle attempted...
...government action?and such action is by no means always just or sensible?to prevent me buying and selling what I want, whence I want, in such a sort and quantity and price as I need for the conduct of my business and the provision of my livelihood. . . . I resent . . . interference. Even if I misjudge, I am entitled to my misjudgment...
...March 16), much regret was felt by all persons interested in bringing U. S. Copyright into line with that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...