Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once when Sullens tied into Paul Johnson, then a judge, Johnson sued him for libel, and to Sullens' disgust a News official settled out of court for a reputed $18,000. On the day of the settlement judge Johnson bought a big new limousine and cruised up & down Jackson's Capitol Street, derisively honking as he passed the Daily News building. Said the Governor on the stump last summer: "I'm still spending that buzzard's money. I'm liable to be spending some more of it too when this campaign is over...
...real basis for disgust with Tchaikowski among many music lovers has little to do with the music itself, but a great deal to do with the way it is played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor...
...louse may be the greatest of war's horrors," the editorial opened. "By the disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...
...play based completely on the evil in human nature, a story of degeneration in a Southern family bent only on money and the power it brings. Like those who have slammed the covers of Baudclaire, many will claim that a play can not be great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away...
...wrote a five-act play-lost-which he dedicated to his own soul. (His father, reading that in bed one night, bawled "Holy Paul!") Passing the Arc de Triomphe, Valery Larbaud asked him how long he thought the Eternal Flame would burn. "Until the Unknown Soldier gets up in disgust and blows...