Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High over the ocean came federal bombing planes from the mainland, to zoom down on the rebel fleet anchored at Suda Bay. One bomb landed squarely on the bridge of the Averoff, an explosion that caused howls of dismay in London...
...Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress are suspected of killing a night-club person. Mobilizing vast resources of wit, charm, and coolheadedness, Miss Collier leaves her house...
...ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing in to the curb. There was no collision...
Newshawks were therefore able to sympathize with the tiny (102 Ib.) actress' dismay as she nervously parried questions with "I t'ink what you t'ink." finally blurted out: "I am thrilled but terrified, so terrified...
...Boston, but the Irish Catholics run it. Ordinarily a man named O'Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn) O'Casey of Dublin found to his dismay that Boston would have none of his play, Within the Gates (TIME...