Word: repellingly
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...plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen...
...time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February a London Express man found scores of them locked & barred in their homes, ready to repel bailiffs...
...Japan will oppose any attempt of China to avail herself of the influence of some other country to repel Japan . . . and also will oppose any effort by China to resist foreigners by bringing other foreigners to bear against them...
...strong centralized government is not necessary to repel outside attacks," she continued. "In the first two years of the Russian civil war, the Red Army had hardly been organized; the force which repelled attacks on 17 fronts was that of the peasants who were fighting for their homes. Spain is the country most favorable to the anarchist movement at present. There there is a very strong anarchical-syndicalist movement composed not only of workers but also of doctors, lawyers and leading intellectuals. The reactionaries were victorious in the last elections only because the anarchists do not believe in political action...