Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruments of production and exchange. And they have always hated them with a closer cordiality in the opulent person of the College Tutoring Bureau. And the cruel professors those who like to go out into the barn and torture the horses, will find similar enjoyment in the bureaucratic dismay. But a Cambridge Plains of Abraham may carry disaster not only to the wolves, but also to the lambs whose hope they are, unless New York's Montcalm decides to give everybody a nice surprise and print the outlines himself...
...only child of hard-working parents in Atlantic City, who had to take in a boarder to make ends meet. To contemplate the long, hard road between Bea and her destined summit would dismay most authors, but not energetic Fannie Hurst, who loves nothing better than building up material careers in print. As a starter, Bea was persuaded to marry the middle-aged boarder. With her mother dead, her father helpless from a stroke, her husband (insufficiently insured) killed in a train wreck, a baby and no prospects, it might look to the reader as if Bea's career...
...first reaction might well be dismay at the gullibility of a learned committee which permitted itself to be duped by so glib a charlatan. Even his name, now that it's all over, seems a little too well chosen. But when one considers the success of such men as Dr. Cook and Prince Harry F. Romanoff, one cannot be too harsh with a faculty which trusted a man skillful enough to elude the Reich's police for four years...
...five minutes of two the cast of Of Thee I Sing . . . was foregathering backstage in normal and unexcited fashion. Five minutes later there was confusion and dismay...
After sending in a two-year subscription to TIME so that I could get my news complete, concise and readable, picture my dismay in trying to decipher your paragraph on Technocrat Howard Scott, The Man- "obfuscate," "rodo-montade," (my dictionary gives the adjective as "rodomont"), "ratiocinated," "transmogrified," "pupated...