Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Republic, according to the new Constitution, also must or may do pretty much everything else. In some dismay, Scientist Moscicki finds himself not only endowed by Article XII with the ordinary powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control...
...Prince Consort, had had mounted, were exhibited. A few scholars began to study them. One of the first. Dr. P. Muller-Walde, went mad. Another, Theodore Sabachnikoff, was so broken by his publisher's issuing his photographs of the collection without text or preparation, that he died of dismay. In 1930 the Windsor librarian gave Kenneth Clark the job of cataloging the entire collection. In the first of the two volumes published last week he includes some 30,000 of Leonardo's hitherto unpublished words, translated from the margins and backs of the drawings...
...piquancy of the Parisian world to trickle through the staid, stuffy circles of English aristocracy, justly rating TIME'S relegation to "dilettante Mayfair," but Edward VII lives in the hearts of lovers of good living and the archives of great cookery. Chefs all over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion by a democracy-professing American aristocracy of good living, ushered in the Reign now celebrating its Silver Jubilee...
...Learned without dismay that the Mother of Parliaments will have spent $200,000 on her own history of herself in 40 volumes when it is completed in 1945 for the years...
Last year he was struck with dismay when his successor, Premier Tsaldaris, concluded the Balkan Pact with Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey. Venizelos saw that Yugoslavia was bound to get into trouble with Italy and Albania, that Greece might have to fight to pull Yugoslavia's chestnuts out of the fire. He objected also to the fact that Italy had not been consulted. Himself nobody's cat's-paw, he could not help feeling that no Greek but himself could ever do anything right...