Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons who dearly love a Lord tut-tutted in dismay last week...
...repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like if sincere in their tumultuous acclamation of Hoover. But the unusual choice of a defeated presidential possibility for vice president in the good fellow Curtis, and the amalgamation of Wall Street and the wheat growers by this happy union, may well dismay the brown derbied tiger as he passes out his slogan banded cigars...
Bishop Rummel, whose churchly duties have hitherto been confined to metropolitan regions, must have had strange feelings of dismay mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop...
...their wedlock, to provide her with flowers and candy. Also, she complained that since she had left his bed and board, James Johnson had pursued her onto street cars and had sent her more flowers and candy than she wanted. Mr. Johnson heard his wife's criticisms with dismay. For himself, he told the court, he loved his wife and desired her return. To this horrid conundrum, Judge Sabath had a neat answer. He gave Mrs. Johnson an injunction to prevent Mr. Johnson from annoying her; to Mr. Johnson he gave permission to send his wife all the candy...
...Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When his eyes were assailed by this dreadful representation, John S. Sumner whistled with dismay and wrote as follows to Nathan Levy, the art dealer in whose window the Andromache had been conspicuously hung...