Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks like a Harvard man, chances are a hundred to one that he's the mysterious prankster "Jeeves" hired by your hostess to amaze and dismay the guests. Jeeves has been an institution in the Harvard Employment bureau as long as people remember. Sometimes, on busy weekends, there are even two or three such cavorting "servants" raising havoc at affairs ranging from quiet little home dinners to giant hotel men's dinners...
...year-old Editor Allen, once a Harvard English instructor, got his publishing start in 1914 as assistant to the Atlantic Monthly's Editor Ellery Sedgwick, edited Century, has himself contributed to most of the slick-paper magazines. Says he of his new job: "It doesn't dismay me at all to be working for a magazine that is 91 years old, and looks superficially as though it were built to an old pattern...
...Deacons found themselves yesterday, much to the dismay of the Winthrop aggregation, who put up a stiff fight, but lacked scoring punch to shove the ball over when inside the 10-yard line. At the end of a scoreless first half, it looked like Winthrop's day because, after one touchdown play had been called back on account of a quick whistle, Bill Eustis passed to Bob Drake to the Deacon three-yard line. Here the half ended, however, before the Puritans could push it over...
...thought of beautiful House dining halls, and rich meals, and he sighed in sympathy. "The employees of this great university, the maids and biddies and watchmen, contributed $4650 last year to the community fund, but undergraduates gave only $2200." Vag shuddered at that forbidding countenance, and discovered to his dismay that it was easier to float through the walls of Brooks House than to sink through the floor...
Some, who had once hoped to see a "democratic" Army, where officers and enlisted men were friends in a big happy family, looked with dismay on isolated instances of Army democracy: officers drinking off-duty with enlisted soldiers, officers soft and indecisive in their enforcement of quick, football-field obedience. There was no question about it: the U.S. Army, model 1941, had plenty of steam, but it lacked snap, dash, spit & polish...