Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welter of bombings in Tokyo and the assassination of Japan's Premier produced last week comparatively little horror, dismay or revulsion but such cool Japanese comments as these...
...adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer and build him a chapel. Silly shot: Chester Morris making Sylvia Sidney wipe the make...
...national administration which can think in terms only of the top of the social and economic structure. They have sought temporary relief from the top down rather than permanent relief from the bottom up, have failed to plan ahead in a comprehensive way." Greatly did this speech dismay that good public friend of Governor Roosevelt's, the arch-Democratic New York Times, which declared: "Why the Governor should feel it necessary to say things which, coming from another, would be called demagogic claptrap, it is hard to understand. He does not need to go out and beat the bushes...
...songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson '32. This occurs much to the operatic dismay of the hero, P. S. Carter '34, who deplores the situation in "Love is the Blues". A polo game, in which he scores winning tallies in the final chukker turns the tide in his favor, however, and merrily the choruses conclude with "It Won't Be Long...
...Smith statement: 1) Supporters of Franklin Delano Roosevelt buckled down to work harder than ever to muster a two-thirds convention majority for their candidate. 2) New England jumped joyfully at the chance of starting a Smith drive. 3) The Dry South cried out in anger and dismay. 4) The entire Republican Party fairly jubilated at the prospect of another major split among Democrats on liquor and religion...