Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While browsing through your issue of May ii, 1 ran across the Pulitzer Prize award announcements, learning to my more or less great dismay that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member of the Wells College faculty. 1 am prompted by utterly selfish motives to hasten to lay claim to Mr. Coffin for his alma mater, Bowdoin College...
...given to an Irishman). The news reached him late at night, and when the reporters had gone he and his wife searched the cellar for a bottle of wine, to celebrate. The cellar was empty, so they cooked sausages instead. At the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most of them sidled up, half-turned; when it came Yeats's turn he made a great effort, clambered up carefully, straight backward...
...Pacific Coast was interested in this subsidized exodus not only from the standpoint of labor but also from the standpoint of race and sex. In many places Filipinos are "problem children" for Pacific Coast authorities. To the intense dismay of race-conscious Californians these little brown men not only have a preference for white girls, particularly blondes, but have even established to many a white cirl's satisfaction their superior male attractions...
Frantically last week the Dutch Government's radio station at Willemstad called The Hague for help. To his vast dismay Governor B. W. T. van Slobbe had found 97 Gómezes landing, bag & baggage, on his tight little island of Curaçao, only 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It was no laughing matter. The fugitives were the children, grandchildren, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins of dead Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez of Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone...
...sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...