Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives employment are chiefly the Dutch, German and French. They work in all mediums-from redwood to Circassian walnut. They do not greatly resent the encroachments of the machine age, for they recognize its assistance to the craftsman. Machines rough out much of the work for the hand-carver to finish, and a composition of sawdust and glue is much used for the conventional work. The pieces displayed include every variety of ornamental and utilitarian...
Many Americans resent the French doctrine of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, when applied to Negroes. Several disagreeable incidents have occured when the tourists have strenuously objected to the rising tide of color in Montmartre...
Augustin Sanchez, editor of El Radical of Leon, was shot four times, but not seriously wounded, by Dr. Rafael Ayon. Dr. Santos Abella, editor of La Information, newspaper of the town of Bluefields, was shot to death by Adolfo Orteza Diaz. By these means Nicaraguans resent "defamatory remarks...
...standing toast--"Here's to George Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor's official opposition...
...budget estimates for the year 1923-4, $50,000,000 was appropriated to defray the cost of the Free State Army. Considerable criticism has been hurled at the Government by citizens who resent bitterly the high cost of the army when only $20,000,000, is appropriated on account of education...