Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later evening the wounded, lovelorn Bobbie returned to the carnival tents. Then the tarnished little dancer who had the misfortune to return his love also had the courage to save him from herself. She had failed to disgust him by her appearance at the smoker. This time she went up for a parachute jump, came down dead. At last Bobbie could go away from the clamor of grind-organs and bawling voices...
...What's this?" cried he with an expression of disgust. "A bomb on my desk? Juan!" he called to his orderly. "Take this away and throw it in the canal...
...turnover market-break (TIME, April i), the assurance of available funds had a tremendous moral effect. For traders were not so much worried about a 20% rate as about the fact that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been rubbing its hands over the money scarcity that its influence had helped produce. That was why Senator Glass made his "face slapping" remark and tried to read Banker Mitchell out of the Federal Reserve System. What with the Glass outburst...
Alone, forsaken, denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed...
Rasputin. When a guest broached to the Grand Duke Alexander the subject of the notorious "Black Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very...