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...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...
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...