Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between two imperialisms in Africa-British Imperialism and Italian Imperialism. Workers, beware! Sanctions may develop into war and a conflict between imperialisms is not worth the life of a single worker...
Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...
...President John Gordon, internationally celebrated pacifist, the Japanese Fleet captures Manila. With malice toward none, President Gordon attributes the onslaught to an insulting ultimatum his bellicose predecessor, President Brainard, has sent Japan in the closing hours of his Administration. To the amazement of his Cabinet, to the disgust of a Congress which has apparently been bribed to a man by munitions interests, President Gordon orders every U. S. warship in the Pacific hot-footing home, invites the Japanese Ambassador to lunch next...
...previous expedition, Mr. Lake had an equally unpleasant experience. A sudden heat wave overlook him and his party far from camp. A wee nip of Scotch was proposed to lessen the ravages of climate. The suggestion was approved. A bottle was produced, opened,--and dropped with disgust. The servants had packed vinegar by mistake...
Last week Al Smith, 61, and Bill Hearst, 72, were 3,000 miles apart, Smith vacationing in New Jersey, Hearst on his California ranch. But, since both had broken in disgust with President Roosevelt, they were politically closer together than they had been since 1918. One morning every Hearst paper in the land blared out with a great two-column editorial on the front page. Men with long memories goggled a little as they read...