Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have Met, We Have Talked." Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill did not have to go to Africa to bring General Giraud and General de Gaulle together. But the conflict between Giraud and De Gaulle was indicative of a basic disagreement between U.S. and British foreign policies. Expressive of the disgust which U.S.-backed policies inspired in many Anglo-Saxon minds was a false news bulletin, dated Jan. 7, 1945, which a wit posted in no less a place than Allied Headquarters in Algiers. It read...
...couple of decades Woollcott made himself a notorious wiseacre occupying a Manhattan apartment ("Wit's End") where he expounded his liberal beliefs, struck extravagant attitudes, greeted friends ("Hello, repulsive"), dismissed bores ("I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss. How about getting the hell out of here...
...concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
...their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
...dreadful man? Disagreement on this point has kept his profitable reading public in a tizzy for years. His best-selling first novel (The Postman Always Rings Twice) was banned in Canada, bought and shelved by M.G.M. by request of the Hays office. Serenade and Mildred Pierce provoked enthusiasm, disgust. What baffled readers was the fact that Author Cain handled the rawest of characters without gloves, mixed social significance and abnormal psychology into speedy narratives of crime and passion...