Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heflin: "I am responsible for it, and I resent the Senator?...
Perhaps the fact that I resent the phrase proves your adjective to have been well chosen; but even so, the point is somewhat blunted by your devoting most of two columns to three of Wooster's illustrious sons. I was privileged to know them all; Dr. Elias Compson, "77, Dean ("pink-slips"), as little as possible; "Prep" Arthur H. in the vague background; Karl, '07, as Captain and left end of the team on which I played an intermittent right end. Largely due to Karl, that team was not scored upon until its final game, when a soggy Columbus field...
...unthinkable that Oxford should resent the arrival on the campus of the men with the cameras and the flaring breeches and the intention of "acquainting mankind with what Oxford stands for; to set forth in moving pictures the essential spirit of Oxford." Yet the Oxford "Isis" demands in a familiar style why "we should allow ourselves to be depicted as the trumpery actors in a roseate spectacle for colonial nincompoops...
...because Chief of Chaplains Axton, who at present has the rank of a colonel, has advocated making colonelcies possible for all chaplains and giving the chief of chaplains the rank of major general. Major general is the highest U. S. Army rank, except in war. Infantry & artillery officers resent the idea of the chief of 125 "sky pilots" being ranked equally with the few U. S. soldiers who rise to command 10,000 to 12,000 (a peacetime Army division...
...smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...