Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gown). Said their host, M. G. M.'s bumbling Louis B. Mayer: "After all, we're all in the same business." The presidents romped and hobnobbed with 50 cinema celebrities, went after autographs so eagerly that Southwestern's dour President Charles E. Diehl exclaimed in disgust: "Grown men acting like that...
...before and the day of her scheduled second marriage to an up-from-the-masses coal company executive (John Howard). Embarrassingly present is her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a Main Liner to the last tweed, whom she divorced two years before out of disgust for his alcoholic habits. Haven has brought along a reporter from a picture magazine (James Stewart) who represents the author's conception of the antithesis to well-mannered privacy-journalistic prying-but whom Tracy comes to think of as pretty "yare...
...disgust, Invader Dew discovered that Taylor's agent had dated up most of the live horses (favorites). In the first four days, Taylor won nine races; Dew won two. Christmas Day, with Taylor only three wins behind, both kids were as "touchy as gamecocks. In one race in which they were both riding, Dew, coming up on the outside, crowded Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just...
...they'll be called cowards and clowns, washouts and wops, and a people who love everybody will wind up with the hate and disgust of everyone...
...Ruth, to be sure, contributes one of the most magnificent passages in the English language;* but it is about a mother-in-law. William Shakespeare himself gets uncommonly fancy and feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...