Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know. Especially ladies who get on committees." Eddie was baffled by Toronto mores. Delighted with his first experience in a shower bath, he invited a little English refugee girl to share it with him. A refugee committee woman found them splashing happily together, howled in dismay: "You dirty little wretches! Little boys and girls don't do that sort of thing in this country. It's-it's not nice...
...British citizen and a believer in and worker for tangible democracy as opposed to the pseudo brand favoured by the small but tragically influential clique of imperialists which "runs" the British Empire, I share your resentment and dismay that such an extremely undemocratic and reactionary person as Halifax should be an honoured guest at Harvard's Commencement...
...Jubilee Singers, now 100% male, have never sung hotcha, keep their spirituals pure and dignified. But last week in Fisk Memorial Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could...
Forty Dartmouth, Amherst, and Harvard men, ferrying their Junior Prom dates home the night before last, discovered to their dismay that this traffic reform wave was in full swing. Cars piled up four deep on the road waiting for summonses. The boys were allowed to get their female passengers home before curfew, but when they reached the station house they were faced with the gloomy alternatives of raising $100 bail, cash or real estate, or spending the night in the jug. Bursar's Cards were scornfully rejected, and real estate was defined to exclude automobiles. They were not permitted...
Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin Pan Alley), who took a defense job in Washington last month, learned with dismay that his new title was: Director of Production in the Motion Picture Division of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics under the Council of National Defense...