Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult she can think of: "You cripple!" If the final sequences showing Philip becoming engaged to a decent wholesome girl suggest the standard pattern of a happy ending it is because Author Maugham wrote his story that...
Author Lawrence writes her brutal story with an icy detachment that will not recommend any of her characters to a reader's wholehearted sympathy. Indignation, disgust, pity she certainly succeeds in arousing. And for insurance men Years Are So Long should be required reading...
Sartip Riza marched with supreme bold ness on Teheran and such was the Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph...
...last few months have been attempting to build up the Harvard Liberal Club, wish to express our personal disgust with the bombastic activities and repulsive tactics of the National Student League. We believe that the actions of this radical group will do much to break down all we have done in helping to construct an organization wherein, by free discussion of radical, liberal, and conservative thought, a rational opinion concerning present-day problems Independent undergraduate investigation of political, social, and economic problems, so necessary today, has been discouraged by this organization whose every activity strengthens an illiberal and unreasoning opposition...
...Kingdom of their own. Realists well knew that the Allies would not like the idea of a new nation, one third as big as all Europe, blocking the way to India and the East, but the Arabs believed the Wartime promise. So did the mysterious Colonel Lawrence until his disgust at the duplicity of politicians caused him to flee theatrically from the world...