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Word: ugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York newspaper woman [Rachel McDowell of the New York Times] knelt at the feet of the Pope and kissed his ring [TIME, Sept. 23]. She touched the Pope's hand, let the touch linger, and said she wished she would never have to wash her hand again (ugh!) And she had hysterics! And boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty way into the confidence of people wherever they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Consequently when certain advertisers presume to ape, the effect is horrid. Horrid too is the arch way the same gentry bedeck their dry bosoms with TIME's own art-jewelry ("jam-packed," "fortnight ago," etc.) Ugh! It is really too too much. Readers are smitten with nausea, coma; worse, they develop sales-resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...around man--me and somebody else--Barry Wendell--forget now--think better go home--bit tired--hard day--losing my punch--guess really better go--hand off--foot out--now--just stand up--ugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...operating table feels his stomach turn over as a nurse walks toward him with the dreaded cone in her hand. "Ugh!"' says he (gulp). "Ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stink into Scent | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...opening day reporters, greeting each other with soft cries of "Ugh! Ugh!" and "How!", tiptoed among celebrities to look at painted jars, baskets, totem poles, Navajo rugs, blankets, silver bracelets, earrings, belt buckles, turquoise necklaces, beaded quivers. Art critics were most interested in two small galleries where hung water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ugh! Ugh! How! | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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