Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental and psychic struggles of its author in these isles of illusion. It is not easy to define the intangible something that led and kept him there. Cursed with an introspective and sensitive mind, and possessed of a goodly amount of fastidiousness, he ran a gamut of hope, disgust, and despair in which he found little relief and small comfort. His native wife proved a temporary and fallacious hope, and soon passed with other phases of his experience. And yet at the end comes a note of peace. As he gazes at the moonlit surf of Moumou he writes...
...complicated maneuvres with no apparent end--marching and countermarching to the monotonous rhythm of beating drums" which the CRIMSON critic declares gave the crowds in the stands five minutes of "weariness if not of disgust", took exactly two minutes and a half and elicited tremendous applause. If the majority of the people in the stands were suffering, they used a queer method of expressing pain...
...band to form an H at the Yale game, or at important games for that matter, but to spend five minutes in complicated evolutions with no apparent end-- marching and countermarching to the monotonous rhythm of beating drums, is sure to inspire a feeling of weariness if not of disgust. There were few people who had a chance to compare the simplicity of the Dartmouth band's marching formation with Harvard's complexity, who did not feel that the former was dignified and the latter ludicrous rather than impressive. After all a band is supposed to play music...
Latin and Greek, much to the disgust of the Socialists, have won in France. Léon Bérard, Minister of Public Instruction, has pronounced them compulsory in his new national curricula...
...failed to enjoy the delicate odors of their elegant decadence, and fled into marriage with Alice Blake, whose idea of Heaven was a brand-new Park Avenue apartment. But on his honeymoon he discovered the horrible truth. Father hadn't really wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest people were rogues, the scandalous ones merely natural? so he promptly went to the devil with supple Zimbule O'Grady and felt much better...