Word: disfavorable
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Accompanied by his wife, his daughter, Mr. Walton entered a kiosk. From the platform he surveyed with disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling...
...event seems to have been peculiarly unfortunate for the Russian government which seems to be placed between the Scylla of popular criticism at home and the Gharibdis of general disfavor abroad. To let the matter drop would probably not be satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action...
...gentleman in question. I was present in Hankow during the hectic days of early January and therefore am able to testify that I personally was not aware that dung was flung, and can also aver that Butterick was not the object of such an hostile manifestation of the disfavor of the multitude...
...student activity. It is hardly too much to say that only with those who see education as something dead and sacred a holy mystery sacrosanct from inquiring eyes, a cut to be accepted with quick faith and stifled question, will such a venture as the Confidential Guide now find disfavor...
...desire, some arriere pensee, such as answering that cry for bread and circuses. At all events, be he altruist or editor, the letter with its enclosed list of impertinent questions has been written. And concerning both letter and questions it must be suggested that the CRIMSON views both with disfavor...