Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Dr. Brüning said: "After the passage of the Young Plan, Germans thought there would be a decrease of taxation and better times. . . . Imagine their disgust, then, to find themselves confronted with the possibility of increased taxes!" This possibility Chancellor Brüning has made an actuality, raising taxes again and again, raising them a fourth time last week. Knowing the extreme depth of German disgust, advertising it to the world. Heinrich Brüning must have anxiously asked himself as he returned to Berlin: "Is it my Catholic duty to proclaim myself Dictator...
Cooper moved to Westchester County so :hat his wife could be near her family. At 30 he was a successful trader in whale oil and cotton. One day, reading aloud to his wife, he flung aside the book in disgust, said he could do better himself. What he began as a joke she persuaded him to finish; to his surprise his first novel (Precaution) was taken seriously. Almost before he knew it Cooper was a literary man. Soon he was hailed (though he later resented it) as the Walter Scott of the U. S. Though no gentleman signed his name...
...analysis of what has brought about this change is more difficult. It is a complete turnabout from the immediate post-war attitude to college education. It is a registering of disgust toward the "collegiatism" of the twenties. The idea that a college education is a key to social life is also passing. It has rather become for many the key to a successful business life. In this respect the depression of the past two years undoubtedly has had a chastening effect on the student ambitious of a business life and has strengthened his seriousness of purpose...
...Vagabond in sheer disgust turned back to Memorial Hall. As he climbed the steep ascent to Haven his steps were laggard. And then, on the three hold he stood transfixed. There, staring out of the tower, spy glass in hand, was a wily Oriental peering off to the Charles where Princeton was practicing for the race. As he watched, he muttered to himself, "Oh Tiger, father Tiger...
...Authors Sellar & Yeatman's consoling style: "Nelson was one of England's most naval officers, and despised weak commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and exclaimed in disgust: 'Kiss me, Hardy...