Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the pro-prohibition professors applauded. They, in an outspeaking mood, were not inclined to resent outspeaking Brown Derbyism, especially since the equitable chairman of the prohibition roundtable, Prof. Augustus Raymond Hatton* of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) had opened his discussion as follows...
Interest Every Day. John J. Pulleyn is president of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in Manhattan, for a quarter of a century the largest U. S. savings bank; and President John J. Pulleyn knows that even small depositors calculate and resent the loss of interest on savings they withdraw before monthly, quarterly or semi-annual interest dates. Therefore President Pulleyn's bank last week began to pay, and claimed it was the first to pay, full interest for every day savings are on deposit. In the cases of some small accounts, the bank's bookkeeping cost will...
OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT...
True it is, as Patrick Henry, come to life again, says in your issue of Feb. 13 [LETTERS], that Chinese students and certain others resent the use of the term "Chinaman" as applied to them. But why? Their term is Tsoong Kok Nyung, which is, literally, Chinaman. And while in English they do not call us America-men, their term is Mei Kok Nyung which, again translated literally, is no more nor less than that. The pronunciation given is, of course, in Shanghai dialect, but the Mandarin pronunciation is not very different, and the meaning is exactly the same...
...written is also a receiver of stolen goods; when a robber refuses the meagre price which he offers for purloined bonds or jewels, the squealer tells the police on him. This is an insult rather than an injury to the police. The wily foxes who play in Scotland Yard resent the squealer's impudently informative gratuities. Especially, one Detective Barrabal who "stroked his silky moustache ... with half-closed eyes. 'Squealer,' he said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises and devices with which Squealer cloaks his criminal doings that no one, not even...