Word: disgustfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail. In his bunk-car he got together a library consisting of a grammar and an unabridged Webster, in three snowbound winters practically memorized them...
...first volume covered the Civil War years, Adams' marriage and his wife's death, his editorship of the North American Review, his disgust with Reconstruction politics and his travels in the South Seas. The present volume covers the panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War. the Bryan campaigns, innumerable Washington anecdotes and scandals, innumerable expressions of fatigue and disgust. It includes explanations of U. S. foreign policy invaluable to future historians, as well as cranky comments about the Jews, weary descriptions of Theodore Roosevelt's energy (Adams felt tired just thinking about Roosevelt...
When bids were asked, Tom Braniff and aides, "on the biggest comptometer we could find," ciphered out the infinitesimal figure of $.00001907378, per mile, put that in as their bid. Much to their disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved...
...which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition to be a priest...
...following as capital crimes: robbery, an ugly disposition, stubbornness, stupidity, lying. But even the cause of good government could not triumph over his grudge against women. When his lord took to giving more attention to a harem of 80 dancing girls than he did to him, Confucius resigned in disgust. The next 17 years, followed by 100 disciples, he spent looking for another job. He did not find one, mainly because Chinese lords mistrusted his honesty, once because he refused to play up to a smart mistress behind the throne. Typical of the topical way Confucius coined his maxims...