Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the Colonies, flourishing circulating libraries and packhorse booksellers spread novels to eager readers, mostly female. The "inordinate passion prevalent for novels" galled Thomas Jefferson, who thought they bred "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and disgust towards all the real businesses of life." Puritans and preachers classified novel reading with such female indelicacies as leg-crossing and nose-blowing. First U. S. novel appeared in 1789. The native art had three great models...
...past 15 years has been peering behind the bars of cages, writing and illustrating books on giraffes and other animals. Ex-Prize Fighter Stolper, who fought all over the U. S. as a lightweight under the alias Joe Stone, had also been converted to animal painting through his disgust for human violence. Said he : "I looked around the dressing room at the other boxers and for the first time I really saw their broken noses and cauliflower ears, and noticed how some of them were permanently groggy. Right then I decided I was through with boxing. I had always wanted...
...small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine my amazement and disgust to find that she had been allowed $2 for each pound sent. After a deduction of 25? collection charges by our local bank, Mrs. Ennor received...
...Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch and Pioneer Press, he began writing politics, fathered three children, was an active Newspaper Guildsman (but dropped out in disgust two years ago), became Governor Stassen's confidential political adviser and close friend during the campaign...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...