Word: disillusionment
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The Dawn of Disillusion. Modeling is concentrated in a few crowded Manhattan blocks between Fifth and Third Avenues, brightened by the parade of breathless, breath-taking young women dressed at fashion's extreme, hatboxes* in their hands, their feet fleet and flat-heeled, their pancaked faces as blank as...
Honor Balfour cabled: "This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and...
Disillusion in London. In Paris, the golden skies and wide boulevards played to bigger crowds than the Communists. The Reds marched into the Place de la Bastille, lilies of the valley in their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000...
Disillusion dogged the trail of Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-Niners. Farmer Lucien Cantiant's cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could...
One stage had ended just a week after Bob Lovett was first approached last March for the Under Secretary's job. Those were the bewildering days of false hopes and gradual disillusion in the face of Russian obstruction. This short and costly era was ended somewhat hysterically by the...