Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago the Incredible, the approach of April primaries brought about a recrudescence of the sort of things that have made the city world-infamous. Politicians hurled Chicago language of stunning crudity. Gangsters hurled Chicago "pineapples." The Chicago press hurled its disgust in a manner suitable to mass circulations...
Romulus and Remus, who were expelled from Alba with disgust and alarm and who must later have had their eccentricities increased by the diet of acidulous milk with which an undiscriminating wolf supplied them...
...capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great disgust of Sir Basil, turns out to be the son of another father and immediately sets about marrying the opera singer's offspring. To Sir Basil's further chagrin, the U. S. illegitimate, whose coy and daring cajoleries have made her his "favorite little bastard," falls in love with...
Disappointed but firm, King Mihai I advanced. "I'll show you how!" he volunteered. Grasping firmly the chubby wrists of Peter he sought to haul him close. Unimpressed, the future King of Jugoslavia practiced simple noncooperation until the King of Rumania gave up in disgust...
...opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the same unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust...