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Quite a few, however, "walked out of the meeting in disgust" over the choice, according to one janitor...
...lifetime Major Byron couldn't fool everybody every time. When England got too hot, the major lit out for Paris or the U.S. The editor of New York's Evening Mirror sized him up at first glance in 1849: "We turned from him with the natural disgust we feel for humbugs in general, and literary humbugs in particular." When the major sued for libel and lost, he went back to London, but in 1861 he popped up again in St. Louis in the uniform of a major in the Federal army. Though Major Byron does not show...
Cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief Robert Neville last week: "Red China is in deep trouble. Early enthusiasm for the Red regime has now turned to sullen resentment, distrust and despair. The educated and the articulate seem to shrink away in shame and disgust from events over which they can have no control. If those Chinese who escape to Hong Kong are judges, a widespread disaffection has set in. Many people are certain that were it not for the secret police and the firing squad, hatred for the Peking government would soon spark into action...
After the second bankruptcy, B. & O. General Solicitor Cassius Clay (an ex-RFC lawyer), resigned in disgust, was joined by another B. & O. lawyer. Said 'lay after he quit: the loans were a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up" and a "fraud." The bankruptcy, said the Tobey report, did more than postpone payment of the loan. It enabled the railroad to convert the notes held by RFC into non-salable bonds, hence left RFC with a frozen loan rather than a live claim on the B. & O.'s assets. Once converted, RFC's collateral Dehind its loans...
Matteo's initial reaction to Angelo is disgust and repulsion; he tries to prove that his wife committed adultery, and that therefore he is not legally responsible for the child. But an old cynical lawyer tells him that before God the mulatto is his equal, and before...