Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location within 50 miles of Hollywood. Four thousand actors performed in it at one time or another. It cost about...
From Berlin unlimited funds and the feverish energy of Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels have impinged for months like blazing searchlights upon the Saar. If what is called Nazi cannot win this nearby victory, what foreign victory can it ever win? To the disgust of millions of Germans, Der Führer has not kept his campaign promises openly to rupture the Treaty of Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany...
...beautiful and well-to-do woman verging on spinsterhood, had the dangerous idea of inviting all her friends for a weekend. Her friends, like most lovely women's friends, were not friends; some of them were enthusiastic enemies. They arrived, in various stages of intoxication, exhaustion and disgust, sank further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess...
...friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE KIROV." The city of Vyatka, capital of the province...
Minors, for whom Babes in Toyland was presumably intended, are almost sure to like it. A more important recommendation is the strong probability that it will not bore, disgust or irritate their elders...