Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became "everybody's woman" after her marriage at 14 to an old imbecile. Contributing to her delinquency was the nomadic life which first her parents, then her husband led her through the shacks of small Massachusetts communities. Two of her children, and probably the third, are illegitimate. With disgust Professor Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that he could have intercourse with Minnie under a street light. He won his bet, the act taking place behind a bowling alley while...
Ordered to pay a fine of 100 francs ($6.60), Motorist Moe gestured his disgust, called the French a race of welchers and flatly refused to pay $6.60 to any French court until President Roosevelt receives the total War Debt payment now due from Paris...
...Dictator Mustafa Kemal's boundless disgust last week, he proved to have been right in his hunch that most Istanbul high-school students would flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
Riffling through the papers in his hotel-room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
...their own presses. They call themselves "a. j.'s" (amateur journalists). The N. A. P. A. was formed in Philadelphia in 1876. Nineteen years later, also in Philadelphia, the upstart Amateur Press Association of America was founded. Later that organization prefixed "United" to its name, much to the disgust of the highly professional United Press...