Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lovers of the amateur spirit in athletics will regard with dismay the announcement of the proposed formation in New York city of a professional football team whose ranks are to be recruited from former college stars. The reports of the organization of this team, engineered largely by Charley Brickley, the former Harvard football captain, state that already many noted college athletes have joind the new team to be called the New York Giants, and that games with a number of the professional teams already formed throughout the country are to be part of the season's program...
...accorded it by the large and ever increasing number of the faculty who are engaged in the many ramifications of war work at the request of the Government. As the exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted by the necessities of war work. And from...
These facts dismay no one, but they challenge every man to reconsecrate himself to personal service as he did in April, 1917. Let no one give the first place in his thoughts to an after the-war future or after-the-war reconstruction until he is absolutely assured that he is doing his part in during the war service to insure the existence of an after-the-war civilization to exploit or rebuild. Our immediate and all-obscuring national aim is victory, and no man with talents to assist in its consummation can be absolved from the duty of direct...
...subject more accurately. In a very charming manner, it deals with the troubles of a temperamental young artist, Henri Duval, in ridding himself of his highly irritating mother-in-law, Madame Bonivard. To this end he sacrifices his wife, Diane, and marrying again, finds out to his extreme dismay, that the widowed father of his new wife, has brought back the disturbing element by marrying Diane. The extrication of all concerned from this dilemma is the final event of the play...
...nothing you dismay...