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...must be that advertisers & publishers are unaware of this growing disgust-and it may not prove wise-in the long run-to judge solely by cash register records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...have never put down a book with more disgust and incredulity than I have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...every peace-lover on this continent, at the lawlessness of certain powers in the world today. There are few persons who can stand by and watch innocent women and children slaughtered by mad-dog nations without raising a cry of protest, and this speech crystallized these sentiments of horrified disgust that all American men and women feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAINST WAR | 10/7/1937 | See Source »

Alben Barkley, overcome with disgust at all his colleagues, snorted: "I don't know! Ask McNary! He's the only real leader round here. That was a hell of a harmony dinner we had last night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hell & Close Harmony | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...spinning-mill, towheaded, quick-witted, Yorkshire-stubborn Herrie Champion was well convinced that he was going to be a great painter. Encouraged in this ambition by his widowed mother, Herrie also got an encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artist v. Factories | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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