Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...
...Benito Mussolini might indeed do something silly. As the polished diplomatic game of understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers, sailors and airmen...
With the approach of the Yale game each November, the office of the H. A. A. is snowed in under countless applications for tickets. Inevitable wails of dismay arise from patrons banished to the no man's land behind the goalposts to plague Mr. Bingham and his staff who, as the saying goes, can do nothing about...
...staggered his closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were only himself to consider," snorted Ontario's Health Minister James Faulkner, M. D., "I wouldn't blame Mitch for quitting!" After...
...Japan's favor. A month later, at the Oslo, Norway meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Italian delegates denied this, reasserted Italy's claim. Last week, with a war and the possibility of a League of Nations boycott on his hands, Benito Mussolini heard with dismay that nonLeague Member Japan might cooperate in a League boycott. Japanese goods looked far better last week than Olympic Games five years off. Last week Count Soyejima announced that he had received a personal letter from Mussolini, promising to withdraw Italy's claims finally in Japan's favor...