Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently Europeans find solace for their disgust at bill-boards, gasoline pumps, and other twentieth century appurtenances by calling them "American." The United States may originally have been responsible for some of these things, but the Old World received them with open arms. Foreigners of the second generation have to be accepted as Americans regardless of their good or bad qualities. It is almost time for Europeans to realize that their gasoline pumps are "of the second generation...
...been the sweeping undergraduate reaction which has followed on the heels of the "rah-rah collegiatism" produced in the middle of the post-war decade. Because sentimentalists and publicists seized and exploited the traditional forms of sportsmanship, it too has been driven to cover by the current wave of disgust at all the lack of restraint that the word "Collegiate" now implies...
...Shallow (a suitable name for them all) is a man, I note with added disgust that 50% of "those who could count" were...
...Hitler, proudly marched into the Reichstag four months ago, took their seats while Socialists shrilly hooted. Week after week Germany nervously waited for something big to happen. Nothing did. Last week the 107 Fascists, plus 41 Nationalists and a hand ful of Agrarians marched out of the Reichstag in disgust muttering dark threats of forming a "rump parliament" of their own at Weimar, scene of the writing and adoption of Germany's present Constitution, which Fascists hate. Sober Germans did not take the Weimar Parliament threat too seriously...
...miscreants must be impressed by the organs of undergraduate opinion that their actions are violently contrary to tradition and that they are viewed in genuine disgust by the undergraduate body. But this is not enough. As a vivid example to those who labor under this rioting complex, recent offenders must be meted strict punishment by the University authorities and by the courts. Finally, the punishment must be known publicly...