Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...
...stationery store executive, the trend of the modern valentine brought dismay. He looked at the heaps of vari-colored pasteboard ruefully...
Next day Canton restaurateurs, famed as the foremost in all China, received with dismay this official order...
...like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...
...Learned with dismay that doctors feared for the life of the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, 74-year-old Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who fell down the steps of Gainsborough Town Hall last week and broke his thigh...