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Faye begins his late-hour (11:30 p.m.), Sunday through Thursday inquisition by pointing to a pasteboard morgue and sneering adenoidally: "This is where I bury the people I don't like." As Chicagoans look on with mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak...
...eyes of Chatham and Burke guarded little more than a storeroom for University files, the gargoyles gazed upon a College that was almost unrecognizable as the Harvard of 1932, and the bell, tolling too slowly to keep up with the changes that had been made, had been stolen in disgust...
...named Lowell House, after the then President of Harvard; House Plan Unit No. 2 was named Dunster House, after the first President. Coolidge, a mathematician, who bore a rather striking resemblance to President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining halls would not have student waiters as the Union had, and, although there would...
...island-wide sabotage, the government made reprisals, e.g., in Havana, the bodies of two men were found hanging with bombs at their feet. Protesting, Santiago's Roman Catholic archbishop said he viewed the rebel violence and the reprisals "with disgust." The local Rotary Club joined in to deplore the case of "four youths, arrested by individuals identifying themselves as members of the Security Corps, who were later found murdered...
...that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest he was condemned to death by a Fascist court and was held in a fortress to be shot as a hostage, but to the disgust of the Fascists, the Germans inexplicably freed...