Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...went to live with a chirrupy little magazine illustrator named Daisy Sage (Frances Fuller). When Daisy goes abroad to study art, Tom falls under the spell of a luscious blonde siren (Lora Baxter) who lures the dazzled young man into marriage, to the anguish of Daisy and to the disgust of Tom's Bohemian cronies and of Regan, Tom's redheaded, ex-prizefighting butler...
...value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very name, they will be amazed to find themselves in a place where a genuine interest is taken in them and in their aims. And if they are lucky enough to come in contact before this with some of the more forward...
...Philip's loud snort of disgust answered the question before his torrent of denials. It was very evident that...
...Niles wants to marry Lavinia, his sister wants to marry Orin. But Orin threatens to air the family's bloody linen if Lavinia leaves him. Seeking peace in a "bottomless hell," he then proposes to his sister that they live together as man-&-wife. His reaction to her disgust is to shoot himself. Her fiance guesses, quite correctly, the worst...