Word: disgustfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing at all, but to a packed house Professor Dewey was able...
...disgust of discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
...years before Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt toured South America proclaiming: "We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to any American Republic." But Elihu Root was a man of mind, not of emotions as politics requires. He quit in disgust after one term in the U. S. Senate (1909-15). Devoting himself to the role of Elder Statesman, he became a member of The Hague Court, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, won the Nobel Peace Prize, was called by the League of Nations to help draft...
...Madagascar, Rozhestvensky held his first fleet for two and a half months while he waited for reinforcements, tried to whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in an hour ten ships did not succeed in forming line, although the leading vessel went dead slow." In final target practice, after a furious fusillade, the target was unscathed. The morale of the fleet was not improved by these revelations, nor by the increasingly bad food, which caused a successful mutiny...
...French critics still fought shy of him. His exhibition was a financial failure. In a brawl with some sailors his leg was badly broken. His Javanese mistress decamped with his money. In towering disgust Gauguin auctioned off his pictures, went back to the South Seas for good & all. Night before he left he spent with a casual prostitute. Her good-by present was the syphilis that killed him. By now even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease...