Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a strong feeling of disgust that I read your review of the motion picture, San Francisco. ... I think TIME sounds a bit ignorant and not at all funny when it refers to Miss MacDonald's very fine performance as "acting with her teeth" and to her exceedingly lovely rendition of Nearer, My God, To Thee as "yodeling." The earthquake scene is a very creditable piece of cinematic engineering, but without the beautiful voice of Jeanette MacDonald ... it would never achieve the audience response which it does...
...well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...
...after a few more hauls. Then Scotland Yard began to close in on them. But the criminals might have escaped the Law had not that evil-eyed individual in a mackintosh taken a blasphemous fancy to Lady Judith. She, not being the tart he took her for, recoiled in disgust. At that he went and ratted to the police. It looked like an open-&-shut case against Sir Gregory and his pals, especially when he pleaded guilty to the charge of drug-smuggling. At the crucial moment, however, he showed that he was not a professor for nothing. Sensation...
...Amberley who is Helen's malicious, unscrupulous mother, Beppo Bowles, an aging homosexual, all appear and play their parts in forming the combination of interests, prejudices, dislikes, inhibitions, standards, that make up Anthony's character. Sometimes they merely exert a negative influence, as when Anthony recoils in disgust at the spectacle of Beppo's humiliation. Sometimes their influence is destructive, as when Mary Amberley persuades him to seduce his friend's sweetheart, causes his friend's suicide. But each incident exacts its influence or leaves its scar, leading Anthony along some path he has undertaken...
Scuttle, Scuttle, Scuttle, Up and up went Ethiopia's jig as a total of three central American countries resigned in disgust from the League (Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua) and Poland crashed through last week with a decree from Warsaw ending Polish Sanctions against Italy. Argentina seemed to be about the hardest nut for Britain to crack this week in the efforts of "Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious...