Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Torrential cheers cut his statement short. It was clear to the heaviest and dullest mind that 300 votes were enough. "Accepted!" roared the supporting members. "Accepted!" roared back the galleries. "Accepted!" cried the Ludendorffists (extreme Monarchists) with dismay. "Accepted!" roared the Communists in anger. The noise of mad cheering grew wilder and wilder. The Communists fairly danced and shrieked with rage. The Ludendorffists turned about and fixed the Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany...
...raised throughout the liberated Provinces. People who had enthusiastically acclaimed the French as their long-lost brothers after the Armistice, were now driven to unconcealed dismay. On the one hand was the clear impossibility of maintaining German laws in French Provinces; on the other hand was the fervid determination of the Catholic population-a large majority-not to submit to anti-Catholic laws of the French Republic...
...there) almost anything is possible in Chicago. The professor is much more concerned over that vast and impassive army which fills the colleges everywhere, but which appears so stolidly to resist any impression on the intellect at all; and in his remarks one catches a sudden sense of the dismay with which the teaching profession must have heard the suggestion that our young men are over weighted with brains. There are so very many of them who do not speak fifteen languages...
Litterateurs shrieked with dismay when President Roosevelt tried to force simplified spelling down the throat of the Congressional Record. Esperanto was tortured to death with fiendish glee by the barbed criticisms of philologists. And yet Mr. Eurique Blanco, writing in the international Book Review, has tempted the lightning of such a champion as Mr. Mencken by declaring that English is not "easy to learn" and that before if can become a world language its innate perversity must be destroyed...
...begins today, it will be advisable for those members of the Class of 1924 who are not interested in seeing the University survive for the use of posterity either to hide themselves in the stacks of Widener or to erect a noble edifice of sophistical arguments with which to dismay the finance committee. The others, who may be anxious to have a safe refuge for their descendants or who may be influenced by some base motives such as pride, or gratitude will thank the gods that for once a Harvard class has adopted an endowment fund policy which permits almost...