Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side of the road. After pecking and swallowing a large quantity of this mash the rooster fell over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...
After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
...break down a perennially stubborn defense. For moments of relaxation from the tension of hotly contested encounters we must look back to the first game ever played between the two colleges, in the Stadium in 1904. Harvard won 28 to 5, using so many substitutes as completely to disgust contemporary scribes. Touchdowns then counted five points each, Holy Cross made its in the following fashion: One of the Purple backs broke through the Harvard line within his own ten yard mark and got started down the field ahead of his interference. He was free of everyone but the Harvard quarterback...
Since then (56 years) the Japanese people have been losing, ever so slowly, the disgust and loathing which they felt formerly for the Eta. In the Japanese army there are now two Generals who are said to be of the "unclean". Reputedly they dare not admit this stigma, and only speak to others of their class in secret places, usually at night. At the Imperial University of Kyoto only one instructor has admitted that he is of the "Defiled Ones." Each year he defiantly announces to his students: "I am an Eta. Let any who are revolted not seek...
...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...