Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional Englishman visiting America left one of our small New England cities in disgust. He said they were having some sort of bally reunion and every hotel in the deuced place was so full of returning sons of the soil that a chap couldn't find room to sleep on the floor. He could not make anything out of it. Why should a man travel half across a continent to re-visit a town just because he happened to be born there...
...cause of Russian democracy. Among other things, he describes the part both of them took in a three-days census of Moscow, in which they canvassed the poorest quarter of the city. The mass of poverty and degradation which they found there excited horror and disgust, and made is deep impression on young Tolstoy...
...from causing the revolt and disgust to grown-ups described by Mr. Nichols, the truth as known to observers is that the tired populace roars its merriment along with the dilapidated student who from a sitting posture on the floor of the subway gleefully gurgles, "I am to be laughed at--I am--I am!" The Freshman would not deprive the populace of one of its greatest amusements! And from such statements as this the happy one invariably makes it clear that the source of merriment lies not in his University but in himself...
...Harvard used made the observer cross-eyed trying to watch men and ball. The Yale mathematical faculty, which had volunteered to chart the exact course of Harvard's unnumbered individuals in her offence, labored with plotting-boards, range-finders, eleven observers and gyroscopic compasses, threw away their instruments in disgust and concentrated on computing the energy released when 70,000 occupants of the Bowl roared in unison. The offense was safe for another year...
...five minutes after the game started, because the spectator would have discovered that, during the time he was endeavoring to locate some number and the name of some player, the ball would have moved on the field and he would have missed enough to make him give up in disgust any attempt to check up on the progress of the ball with the aid of the program. In short, I do not believe that the suggestion is valuable from the standpoint even of the spectator...