Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted...
...Senator Borah and Representative Tinkham have their way, all the fire works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases...
...artists with radical theories, are often heard to whine and mumble because men with money, i. e., art patrons, prefer to buy the works of "old masters." These whining, muttering artists are to some extent justified. But what must have been their surprise, their delight mixed with dismay, to learn, last week, that an anonymous art patron, i. e., a man with money, had spent $41,000 for 32 of the works of John Sloan, famed extant U. S. painter, president of the ultra-radical Society of Independent Artists...
Last week, a replica of the famed Apollo Belvidere* was placed in the Greenville, S. C., Museum of Art. The citizens of Greenville gazed at it in dismay. Then they went home and wrote letters, begging officials to swaddle the statue because its nakedness offended them...
...form of amusement copied the methods in use in America in their production, and evidently designed their theaters after American models. But they failed to consider the requirements of their public. When the tired business men of that city invaded the new sources of entertainment they found to their dismay that seats designed for athletic citizens of the United States were all too small for their more ponderous selves. In fact, so uncomfortable were they that an organization has been formed to work for the adoption of seats more suitable to Turkish proportions...