Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gained ground every time he touched the ball. The Princeton men felt the strain and devoted themselves entirely to the defense. Captain Peace undertook the "block game," so characteristic of Princeton, and with wonderful coolness and tact held the ball nearly thirty minutes, touching back repeatedly, to the lively disgust of the spectators. His game was a strong one, however, and nothing but the pluck of the Harvard men saved them from defeat. Their tackling was perfect, and the activity showed by the rushers in getting down on the ball called for much applause from the crowd. Things were looking...
...fall regatta has been abandoned, much to the disgust of '85, for that class felt sure of an easy victory in the class races. The reasons given for abandoning the regatta is that it interferes with our foot-ball prospects. What our foot-ball prospects are I really cannot say. We have had prospects ever since our foot-ball commenced, and if they are the same this year as they have been in years past, I would suggest that we hold two or three fall regattas, for the sole purpose of interfering with them...
...disgust of the several thousand spectators during the ninth inning beggars description. Hall went to the bat, and Hopkins was retired by a beautiful hot line catch by Coolidge. He was immediately followed by Hubbard, who knocked a grounder to Coolidge, and who was put out on first. The score now stood 4 to 2 in favor of the crimson, with two Yale men out and no one on base. Wilcox stepped to the bat and got his base on seven balls. Camp knocked a grounder to Le Moyne, who picked it up very prettily. The enthusiasm of Harvard...
General Daniel Pratt, G. A. T., was in readiness Friday evening, according to announcement, to lecture at 581 Washington street, on "AEstheticism," viewed from his standpoint, but the audience was wanting, and the general, after waiting some time for a gathering of respectable size, departed in disgust...
...asked him for the loan of his hat for a few minutes. Bob remembered seeing a professor of mystery, mirth, and magic a short time before produce silver dollars from the lining of a gentleman's hat, and hastened to comply with her request. But to his disgust he found that in this instance it was the circle which was expected to produce the silver...