Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George A. Fuller Co. The building's overall measurements are 385 ft. by 304 ft. With the exterior finished in Vermont marble, Alabama marble will be used on the interior, Georgia marble will be used in the four courtyards. At Architect Gilbert's insistence and to the dismay of penny-pinching Congressmen, the Court chamber itself will be finished in Italian and Spanish marbles-a fact so far discreetly soft-pedaled...
...Colorado and plunged into the rushing water. He was swept into the underground realm of the immortal Snake people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring were snakes. The Hopi drove the snake children into the desert. They returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from...
...Socialism. To the dismay of many an old-time Socialist, Nominee Thomas has evolved a brand of Socialism largely his own. Karl Marx's inflexible dogmas have been left behind as Mr. Thomas has adapted his general creed to the U. S. A major obstacle to Socialism in the U. S. is an innate hope in every citizen someday to become a capitalist. According to Mr. Thomas, U. S. workers have a discouraging habit of thinking of themselves first as white or black. Jew or Gentile, native or foreign born, factory hands or field hands, rather than as a toiling...
...Shenandoah a large general store and a broadcasting station (KFNF). Using his radio to ballyhoo his goods Storekeeper Field sells seeds, prunes, typewriters, hams, shirts, overalls, shoes paints, tires, pigs et al. His bargain announcements over the air bring country crowds flocking from miles to Shenandoah, much to the dismay of shopkeepers elsewhere. Candidate Field has never been in politics before, counts on his rural customers to start...
...mentioned in the encyclical were three events of the past three weeks which doubtless contributed to the Pope's dismay at the state of the world-the assassinations of President Doumer of France and Premier Inukai of Japan and the finding of the murdered Lindbergh baby. But last week the Vatican's daily Osservatore Romano, commenting on Inukai's death, observed that recent criminal acts were enough "to make the world blush ... [a] most execrable offense to civilization...