Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resent intensely the necessity of hunting among the many advertisements for the news items I subscribed to get. I must admit that along with many others I'm completely fed up on this advertising business...
...Loon's Geography (1932), Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of the great inestimables of the literary world. Critics who resent being spoon-fed from the vast Van Loon pudding are easily convinced by the Van Loon illustrations that his books belong in the nursery. Some children feel vaguely dissatisfied with Artist Van Loon's inky snarls and scratches. Between these critical extremes, chuckling down history's and culture...
...days later William Green said of John L. Lewis and his speech: "He denounced in autocratic and dictatorial terms the greatest friend of Labor who has ever sat in the White House. ... I resent it. I resent it emphatically...
...Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
...refer to the Spanish embassy of the Spanish Republic as the "embassy of the Spanish Leftists," though you are well aware that there is only one Spanish Ambassador accepted by the United States Government as the duly accredited representative of the Spanish Republic. An American would resent a reference to an American embassy as the "embassy of the American New Dealers," as being disrespectful though it would be as accurate, but in the case of Spain it is more serious to use such flippancy about a government for which many are dying in its defense. It is bad enough that...