Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dressed in the bravery of gold and tinsel (England in the 17th Century). With a number of substantial presents pendent from its boughs, preliminary inspection will bring complete approval. As the play proceeds and the visitor begins to poke around behind the gaily decorated boughs he finds to his dismay that the picture tree has no roots of plot. It teeters badly and threatens to collapse at the first breath of a yawn. When the heroine is growing up as a tomboy in the country there is entertainment. When she moves up to London a great calm suddenly comes...
...this year 4,338,000; but as regards seats the luck of the game was with them. . . . Mr. Baldwin was stabbed in the back as no political leader in this country has ever been. Day after day everything was done to spread doubt, discouragement and dismay...
...insult to our sister University is clear, but the chagrin grows to dismay at the thought of what may be offered by those undergraduates who dislike Princeton. And when the enemies of Vassar take to interior decoration we must look to our shame. Furthermore such an insidious attack is scarcely fair to our friends at Cambridge. The shock to their morale when they see room after room defiantly denouncing their beloved Aims Mater will not quickly be forgotten. They will realize suddenly that we are no longer bound by the ordinary inhibitions and fears: it is simply that Yale doesn...
...effect that Boston is the American home of correct English. But when the former editor of the London Daily Chronicle states that America as a whole is the stronghold of the English tongue and should therefore initiate measures for its preservation, the compliment elicits only an expression of blank dismay...
...reaction of India in favor of native languages, native traditions and literature will have its counterpart in Czecho-Slovakia if English is too widely employed. At present, however, nothing retards its extensive use in advertising and road signs; even means, which are often printed in French here, to the dismay of unsophisticated patrons, appear in English in Czecho-Slovakia...