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...Saturday afternoon, when Vag was walking past Adams House, rejoicing at the belated arrival of spring weather. From a C-entry room the radio blared forth the progress of the Boston city series, and a horn-rimmed passer-by, recently emerged from the Grolier Book Shop, remarked in disgust, "don't tell me that nonsense is starting again!" Vag smiled contentedly, reflecting for perhaps the thousandth time that Cambridge was one of the few places in America where such sentiments were commonplace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Backs Pigs-Kin to Top Spaniards in Lingo Tilt | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ein Tywysoges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Weisgal was probably unaware, however, of the growing dramatic frustration arising in the dark corners of Sanders Theatre, where female candidates for the title role cowered. As the dulcet tones began to flow from Weisgal's lips, three 'Cliffedwellers strode out of the casting hall in disgust, but the remainder decided to see their disappointment through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Going Green with Jealousy as Weisgal Flaunts His Tresses in Tryouts for 'St. Joan' | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

...describes himself as an "English monarchist," suggests that a new Spanish monarchy might bring back peace and even "vigorous social reform" with the crown. But he makes plain his feeling that almost any form of government would be an improvement over Franco's, and cannot hide his disgust with the Franco regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat, Smug, Complacent | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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