Word: disgust
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...convention, and also to the hypocritical, jingoistic, and selfish denial of the scenes that took place during the stay of the Legionnaires in Boston. The communication of Past Commander Erickson of the Legion indicates that even within the ranks of that organization the Boston revels were looked upon with disgust. The courageous and admirably truthful attitude here brought to light brings the remarks of the Boston politicians into an even more unattractive light...
...because she is unfaithful to her husband and because she was a beggar when she married; everyone in the marketplace cheats the Jew and spits on him. The bond that draws slowly tighter, pulling them together, although not strong enough to keep them so, is a common rebellion, a disgust for the violent life of the town square, which the Jew and the woman have long shared, and which the woman gradually pushes into the fuddled head of her lover, the big longshoreman. There are times in the earlier sequences, when rebellion can be seen working in these cells living...
...ghost" (Cartoonist Arthur Folwell). But also the Herald Tribune engaged Rea Irvin. His title is "The Smythes;" his characters, the conventional father, mother, small son & daughter, Pekinese pup; his theme, the conventional burlesque of U. S. middleclass home life. Sample episode: Mrs. Smythe insists upon buying Pekinese, to utter disgust of Mr. Smythe who snorts, "I don't know what you can see in that mutt." Mrs. Smythe, in desperation, goes to bed. Later, Tootums (the Pekinese) awakes and sneezes. Unable to arouse his wife, Smythe arises, grudgingly walks the floor with Tootums, finally melts, talks baby-talk...
...some time I have been subjected to boasts of "California Sunshine" and "California Athletes" and have become accustomed to limiting my expressions of disgust to sighs of pity. But it is asking too much to have me remain placid in the face of a statement that "Stanford so hopelessly outclasses Cornell that it is unfair to Stanford to be called a counterpart of that school," even under threat of apoplexy...
...Every Pole is aware of my organic disgust with the methods and works of parliaments as a whole and the Polish...