Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a newspaper reporter. When abroad, Erin O'Brien-Moore contemplated visiting his birthplace in Ireland, tossed a coin, went to Paris with friends instead. She owns no pets except a ten-year-old alley cat, dislikes all sports except swimming, admires Al Smith. She cried with dismay when she saw her cinema tests. Her next picture will be Dangerous Corner...
...Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott was able to pull many a patronage wire through Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials to solicit from Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of Packard Motor...
...that both succeeded in filling Albert Hall, which seats some 10,000 people, at party mass meetings. Cooler than Commander Locker-Lampson last week. Edward Tumour, Earl of Winterton, hoisted himself to his feet to oppose the motion. First he explained that, as foreign governments have discovered to their dismay, it is practically impossible to define a political uniform. Continued the worthy Earl of Winterton...
This walloping five weeks' work sent a wave of dismay through Germany and France. Austria had officially become Italy's little brother, safe for a while from German Nazi aggression. France had lost a major engagement to Mussolini, whose power fanned suddenly over all central Europe...
...clock on Mondays and Wednesdays. Once having checked with a friend to reassure himself that no tests or theses will be forthcoming, he makes no further inquiries, and the study card is turned in. Comes the Fall and the first weeks of lectures, and the student finds to his dismay that either the lectures or the material are not to his liking. Usually it is too late to correct the error, or there is no better alternative...