Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union as "crafty old Mrs. Ella Boole." Mrs. Boole is respected and admired by thousands for her statesmanlike leadership and wholehearted devotion to a great cause and the use of such disrespectful terms will only merit the contempt and disgust of decent people for the one who uses...
...forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China (his own territory) and his failure to provide more determined resistance to Japan. Wang Ching-wei resigned in disgust having first sent a note protesting the passive military policy in the north of "Young Chang" Hsueh-liang, ruler of Peiping...
...warlike bombing of civil populations, adding that he had Manchuria in mind. When Sir John Simon made two points? 1) that China and Japan are not legally at war; 2) that it would be senseless to prohibit bombing in peace time?Dr. Yen withdrew his resolution in bitter disgust...
...torture his information out of him, de Bernis picks a fight with him, kills him, just as Sir Henry Morgan's boats sail into the bay. In the dénouement de Bernis turns out to be made of stainless steel, as Priscilla, to Major Sands's disgust, had spotted from the first...
...politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...