Word: resents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.M.U. In Dallas, Tex., for instance, hard-working volunteers have raised one-third of a needed $1,500,000 for Southern Methodist University. Donors and prospects, who have dealt only with the volunteers or university officials, might resent the idea of outside, professional direction in the drive. But if the missing million appears by the deadline, March 1, S.M.U. can thank the smooth, self-effacing American City Bureau, of Chicago, which set up the campaign and then stood discreetly aside to watch the volunteers collect. The saving in time, chaos and personal irritation should be well worth A.C.B...
Southerners generally resent any Federal infringement on their State-right to solve their own problems: they have also been prone to leave those problems unsolved. Last week an extraordinary meeting took place in Atlanta, Ga. Its purpose: to prod Southerners into airing some of their dirty linen before the Federal Government steps in and washes it for them...
Said a New Delhi newspaper: "You can belabor an elephant and he will not resent it, but a small irritant under one toenail may drive...
Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
...forgotten Tory once remarked in defense of his favorite magazine: "British humor is not to be laughed at." Punch's readers still resent any newfangled notions in their magazine, like it to keep a little behind the times. It still appears (except for its semiannual specials, the Summer Number and the Almanack) in the cover drawn in 1849 by Richard Doyle. Nevertheless Punch has made some perceptible changes in late years. Almost all of its cartoons now bear the modern single-line caption, and it has sponsored several brilliant new cartooning talents...