Word: disabusedness
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> "The men who are actually fighting this war are thinking about postwar problems. . . . Any idea that the men are only thinking about the end of the war and getting home would be disabused by a visit to any overseas station."
Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions...
Lately, in sections of Philadelphia where Coughlinism is strong, Jewish synagogues and shops have been pasted with anti-Semitic stickers; windows of a Negro church have been smashed; a Protestant tolerance meeting was invaded by Coughlinites. A Commission of Fifteen sober churchmen, appointed by the Philadelphia Federation of Churches, investigated...
If this meekness on the part of the New Deal's most militant crusader led businessmen to think that a new day had dawned, they were speedily disabused. Not only did the Federal Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department...
The art of designing beautiful clothes for women is no longer exclusive with a dozen dressmakers in Paris. During the past year U. S. designers have been well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped...