Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted to laugh at the hero when he overdrank so Mr. Gilbert for the moment gave up the role of leading man for that of comedian, Considering the plot of the play and the tender feelings of his Rose of Sharon, we should have expected a rather different attack. Disgust rather than amusement should have been the reaction of the audience...
...adolescent ward of an old schoolmate of his. The latter, a rotund provincial, conceives a plan to break her of her attachment. Let her, thinks he, but see her idol as he is, gray-haired and middleaged, and she will march out of the dressing-room in disgust...
...betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram, the convenient death of the man whom Joyce had come to love...
Then came The Laughing Lady, Ethel Barrymore's comedy of epigrammatic manners. The impulse at the end of that entertaining series of pruderies was simply to call the author a liar and go home in disgust-or else not to believe that it was over at all. But even if you had thought that that was the end of all things for the heroine's decorous amour, you would not have been thrilled at her renunciation. You could have cried about...
Tourists home from Europe express their disgust at the sight of a cash register in operation at the entrance to the Cathedral of Milan. But need they travel so many miles to witness evidences of the abominable "new Barbarism...