Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come in at the Door" might very easily build a reputation as a writer of clever novels on morbid themes for the delectation of the sophisticated, as Black Mask horror stories are for the unsophisticated. He might also do far more; he might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come in at the Door" is a novel well worth reading--even reading twice. If March can lift himself from the slough of despond and find direction, his next novel will...
...allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior. Unfriendly to authority, he has a rooted conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy are almost invariably charlatans or rascals. He once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than...
...side lines, as President of France, Gaston Doumergue acquired a vast disgust for the French political game of which he had been a part for so long. As head of the State, he had a chance for the first time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative...
...extraordinary opportunity which now confronts them. That man is the heir to the throne of France, the Due de Guise; he enjoys an international reputation for firmness of character, and in France he has great prestige both as a man and as the embodiment of the monarchial tradition. The disgust of the French people with the corruption of the present irresponsible Republican regime has put them in just the mood to hearken to the benefits of a stable monarchy...
...asked by letter for similar approval but had never answered. It was so evident last week that the RFC intended to put in Chairman Cummings of Deposit Insurance Corp. as Continental Illinois' chairman that Sewell Lee Avery of Montgomery Ward resigned from the bank's board in disgust. Mr. Ranney announced he would like to have his name withdrawn from consideration...