Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most thrilling episode in the book is the story of her love for an Austrian nobleman, and of her subsequent disgust when she discovers that his intentions are not of a matrimonial nature. After an idyllic friendship with this schuft, she finds herself first repelled by a wild Bohemian party at which one of the ladies actually dances on a supper table! Then the Crucial Scene...
...gobbled up in matrimony by Fluffy Daughter. In a drug-inspired vision the composer (Roland Young) fancies himself actually shackled to the family. He is forced to devote his talents to frenziedly manufacturing widgets-whatever they are. The natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth of his symphony and pantomime. Escaping from the dream with a whole skin, the composer wins the sensible girl across the hall and plans to live in a cottage...
When he wrings from her what she has done, in an ecstasy of virtue, he flings her off in disgust and marches out to confession and prison...
...Sidis prefers that nothing more be said about him, nothing more should be said. American newspapers generally have been unsympathetic in their treatment of prodigies. It is possible that the notoriety of the present case several years ago was too much for its subject, and he gave up in disgust. Or it may be that Mr. Sidis had not the capacity of Professor Gildersleeve and John Stuart Mill to carry on with his work. Whatever the facts, the Tribune has succumbed to the democratic temptation to crow over the failure of an extraordinary individual. The case, of course, proves nothing...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Alice was one of the pioneers in smoking and left a trail of ashes and smoldering disgust through conservative circles. . . . She came and went like a merry flash and skated skillfully over very thin ice. . . . Any day you may see Alice Longworth come into the Senate. . . . Her hat, no matter how becoming, is flung instantly aside. . . . She hasn't much hair, but it is pretty and there is scarcely a gray streak in it. ... Not long after her marriage, I think it was, she was giving a big luncheon party. In the middle of it, someone...