Word: bafflement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself."?"Why dat is?"?" 'Cause nigger ain't worry heself dat much...
...successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement at the heartless stupidity of his elders. Treacherous death was actually release...
From the depths of a plump arm chair at the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, James R. Sheffield, vacationing U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, frankly confessed to newsgatherers last week his bafflement by the Mexican crisis: "None of us is able intelligently to diagnose the condition between the Church and State in Mexico. . . . No foreigner can understand the Mexican nature. Even men who have lived for twenty-five years in the nation do not understand the mental processes of the people...