Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed he did succeed in stalling all important Senate business for a solid week...
Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...
Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
...Soon a whole set of theatrical tintypes begin to appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives him permission, a sexy mother-in-law, an officious low comedy father-in-law. To the very evident amusement of its spectators and the disgust of Manhattan critics, the show's dull bawdry continues until innocence melts impatiently into voluptuousness, takes restrained venery by storm...
...almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they had a chance...