Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returns began to trickle in, when Montreal's rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that 57 of the 63 seats in Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer off-the-record view. Sniffed one: "Social credit is interesting and the sooner it fails in Alberta the bigger the lesson to the world will...
...eight men on an atoll in mid-Pacific, the approaching drone of four Hornet motors fortnight ago was the climax of three months' arduous efforts. While hundreds of frigate birds and terns screamed in dismay, they hopped up & down on the beach, waving gleefully...
Great was Nat Patton's dismay when his friend Eugene Sellers took the stand to testify that the box he saw Mr. Patton carrying away from the Carpenters' did not seem like a cigar box to him. It was too small and light. Furthermore, Representative Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, had declared: "Hell, no, that wasn't cigars." And several days later Representative Patton told Friend Sellers: "Well, I bought one of those baby bonds." Afterward, Nephew Shook had hinted: "Uncle bought a bond and it wasn...
Activist Starace created more dismay by abruptly ordering all prefects of provinces, mayors of municipalities and presidents of charitable institutions to omit from their necessarily stereotyped public orations the following time-honored phrases...
...sound like breathless Floyd Gibbons: "This is Chapter 1-in epitome -of the Roosevelt regime. And what a chapter! What a regime!" Beyond these mutations, however, Traditionalist Draper bogged down in Tradition for fair. Circulation, which once had risen close to 1,500,000, dwindled steadily,* to the great dismay of Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 72, who had been with the Digest all his life. Last week Editor Draper announced his resignation. Cause: "Differences of opinion on matters of policy." He took pride in having "made it a paper of original rather than quotative matter." Off to his Adirondack summer...