Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They always notice it. They always frown when they see boys living differently than they used to live; they always snort when they see men teaching things they were not taught. Their gifts to Harvard made this possible, and still they resent it. It is probably because every change makes them feel just that much less at home, and that annoys them. Then they see some classmates is the distance and they forget their annoyance. And together they all go into the Yard. Sometimes they don't even notice the legend over the gateway: "Enter to learn...
House Masters have for some time resented noisy swarms of outsiders who attend House dances, and unfortunate incidents of a personal nature have on one or two occasions added to their prejudice. But their passing the buck to the H.A.A. is completely unwarranted, since they have no right to resent and presence of other undergraduates and their guests from stands and playing-fields...
...were a socialist, a beach-comber, or some other sort of undesirable, and fell in love with a wealthy and beautiful young lady, her family would resent it--and she would pretend to. But if you were the only man she had over known, she would end up by marrying you, and paternal benediction would be tardy but inevitable...
...Decent Southerners will resent...
...Gillette of Iowa to divorce oil production and sale much as the New Deal divorced banking and underwriting in 1933. Last week President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. went to Washington to protest. Denying that the present setup was monopolistic or unjust, he declared: "I resent such an indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum Co. of America. Year ago last week the Department of Justice filed suit for the dissolution of this $236,000,000 foundation of the Mellon...