Word: resentment
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...that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth In the language of the old French proverb, 'the indispensable man is yet to be.' I have no objection to a man saying he would like to hold his job but I resent the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding...
...doubt many of your Southern readers will resent this implication that "Southern white" colleges are not comparable physically to other U. S. colleges. Having visited the majority of the colleges and universities in 42 States, including every college and university in the South, I would rank the appearance, if not the cost, of Southern white colleges against those of other sections of the U. S. Duke University, Durham, N. C., for instance, has the finest single college quadrangle in the world. Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., certainly, is as beautiful as any in the U. S. The architecture of William...
...Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person might have been the model for Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's personification of the G. O. P., was sure all decent lawyers would "resent" the statement. President Hoover at Indianapolis thundered...
Because most farmers resent being told things can be done in a better way, they resent large-scale farming. Because Hickman Price was an Easterner and no farmer, the resentment was increased. Newspapers in the West headlined the story of the Eastern industrialist's woes...
...menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his older sister-in-law. Eliane, just shivering on the verge of old-maidhood. Eliane knows Philip better than he knows himself, knows also all about her sister's lover, does not resent Philip being cuckolded because she loves him herself. Her minute caretaking of him gets on Philip's nerves, but it never occurs to him why she does it. At last Eliane, unable to stand the situation any longer, goes off to a boardinghouse. Philip finds her there, seems agitated, wants...