Word: disgustfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly every hamlet in Massachusetts making political friends. He denounced the New Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold...
...figure was the central character of one of the strongest French novels since Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. The sixth book of a 37-year-old, self-educated Frenchman, it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society...
...even readers impressed with Author Farrell's grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters' obsessed disgust with sexual and other bodily functions that has the strange effect of making them seem uniformly immature...
...reception recently afforded members of the Landon-Knox club by certain occupants of Dudley Hall arouses a faint feeling of disgust so soon after a tercentenary marked by pledges of continued freedom and liberality. Small-minded bigotry evinced by tearing up campaign literature and hindering members of the Landon-Knox committee from distributing their material only results in the pitying suspicion that certain commuters are as yet not sufficiently mature to enjoy the new-found freedom of Dudley Hall. Perhaps a nursery in the Union would serve their purposes as well...
...Deal. Last month Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick shocked his Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions for the election of Roosevelt...