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Word: disgustfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gained in moral stature last week by giving Cuba one of the few fairly conducted elections it has ever had. That his reward was defeat at the polls was due, they thought, not so much to dislike of the genial Dictator as to an unreasoning eruption of Cuban disgust at hard times and a tendency to blame these on the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Backfire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...wish to register disgust at your puerile article on "Musical Antiques" in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition." After rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham bought the paper in 1918 and supported the League of Nations (". . . inevitably Woodrow Wilson would be caught by such a whimsy . . .") Marse Henry quit in disgust. He died a few years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Southern Succession | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...against this opposition the U. S. Government went swiftly ahead with its preparation of a formula to deal with Latin-American debts. Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight had expressed disgust with the slow operations of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, which, he felt, should long ago have reached an inter-American understanding on the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American bonds held by U. S. citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From a silly romantic, Mrs. Pawle changes to a sinister slut, experimenting shamelessly with Alan's emotions, goading him to a peak of frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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