Word: disillusional
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To this symphony of common sense, a not quite harmonious note is added by stock market reports such as this United Press dispatch of October 22: "The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify...
When he returned briefly and secretly to the U. S. in 1931 and betrayed his disillusion, a U. S. Communist told Fred Beal that the Russians should have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists...
For a whole legion of non-Communist but hitherto sympathetic pinkos, the New Republic and the Nation deplored "Stalin's Munich," Hitler's "colossal diplomatic victory." For thousands of citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion...
In No Time for Comedy Olivier is cast as the author of a drama about a youth who supposedly dies fighting for Leftist Spain. The boy's scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than...
Biggest event of Villard's boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest...