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...marched them through the city for Paris to see. Last week the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and other big German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population was so aroused against criminal terrorists that German soldiers were not always able to hold back the irate crowd...
...farmer was being rescued again by the War Food Administration. Fresh from its six-month egg-buying spree which supported egg prices-much to the housewife's disgust-WFA started buying wheat last week. Under the pressure of forecasts of a billion bushel crop, wheat prices had sagged to a 1944 low. But a thumping two million bushel order placed in Kansas City and Minneapolis by WFA snapped prices up four cents a bushel...
...needle trades. London was "an unreconstructed idealist, one of those rare spirits whose goodness was felt by all who came in contact with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic...
Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song, Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...
...Their standards of food, sanitation and comfort are so high and their astonishment and disgust when expected to put up with lower standards so unfeigned and unrancorous that the Germans, unwilling to admit that their own standards are lower, are shamed into making improvements...