Word: disgustful
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...utter disgust at the behavior of the Chamber of Deputies last week doughty old Premier Albert ("Tomcat") Sarraut exclaimed, "The financial hemorrhage continues!" Few hours later he rode off to present the resignation of his four-week-old Cabinet to President Albert Lebrun...
...suppose the average undergraduate realizes or cares about the feelings of disgust which fill the minds of loyal Harvard graduates as they see these riot scenes around the goal posts after football games. At any rate, I trust that if the Harvard Tennis Team defeats Yale at New Haven they will not consider it proper to tear up the nets and posts and bring them home. Arthur W. Blakemore...
...given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this is handled with the worst direction, the most inexpert acting (including that of Miss Ulric) and the shabbiest mise en scene now observable on Broadway...
...second half of that inning was a half-hour uproar. Critz was on first with one out when Bill Terry lashed a two-bagger into left field, putting Critz on third. Crowder prudently gave Ott a base on balls, to the noisy disgust of the bleachers. Then to the plate shambled a tall, stooped figure-"Lefty" O'Doul. An oldtime hero of the Pacific Coast League, in 1932 O'Doul was No. i batsman of the National League, but a 1933 slump had put him on the bench, to be brought forth only in a pinch like this...
...Farley's little play is becoming too much for him. The stands everywhere convicted; either as the devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...