Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who resent hearing Jesus called "first Rotarian" resent also he kindred phenomenon of a smooth-spoken advertising expert exercising his facile dictaphone to bring home truths about religion with which most literate people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated...
...change in the 18th Amendment, we should turn the subject back to the states, so that each state, within constitutional limits, may settle it in accordance with the convictions and conscience of its own people, those communities that want Volsteadism being free to have it, but those that resent it being no longer forced into taking...
...amount of leisure, spicing the rite with conversation with a kindred spirit. Even a few relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
...have just received the second copy of your magazine TIME. I find no pleasure in it. I also resent your spirit of the "wide-mouthed Southern Negro," since you do not know them as I do. Please find enclosed $.30, the price of the two copies and take my name from your mailing list and oblige. J. W. FAUT...
...upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...