Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema with President Antonio C. Torres of the Manila municipal board (son of a supreme court justice of the Spanish regime). No prude but by hobby a criminologist, President Torres had declared: "70% of the present day crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life are distorted, flock to these films portraying college love and then...
...hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated...
...Adjusted Service Certificates were issued in 1925. They were commonly called the Soldiers' Bonus. Veterans resent that term. They say the money was due them for War work done at insufficient wages. They point out that after the War the Government adjusted its contracts with the railroads and the War contractors, paying them $1,600,000,000 and $2,000,000,000 more, respectively, in cash. The Certificates were given the form of 20-year paid-up endowment policies. Values (maximum averages $1,500) were computed by the following equation...
...book is written for grownups, but it may embarrass parents as well as bachelors. Many a father may feel as tenderly toward his children as Father Hutchinson writes of Simon, but few would attempt to expose such a feeling in print. Some may even resent Parent Hutchinson's performance. Rebecca West, writing last fortnight in the Outlook & Independent, grew caustic at The Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about...
...elderly woman, to whom Westport and everything connected with it is very dear. Her family and her husband's have been identified with the town since it was settled. They now belong to the older and conservative element in the town, but are just as quick to resent any reflection on the community as the new residents could...