Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy was His Highness that he instantly decreed remission of all fines and rents from the Crown Lands for the past five years-a gesture which cost $1,200,000 as Jaipur Treasury officials quickly estimated with glad dismay...
Despite the whirl in commodities, important indices of trade failed to reveal any fundamental change-of-trend last week. But since business has usually revived after a rise in commodities, many a businessman was cheerful, prone to look ahead a month or so rather than to express dismay over current figures. Iron Age reported steel operations up to 30% of capacity after being at 29% capacity the week before. Steelmen were encouraged by the prospects of a busy automobile industry for the rest of the year, anxiously awaited the results of the year-end rail buying by the railroads. Buying...
...Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops. . . .His cope, mitre and pastoral staff aptitudes have caused dismay to some, and led others to ridicule what should be a dignified office. He looks well in a high hat, but odd in a mitre...
...common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...
...curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter's favorite drink with a blank stare of dismay not unmingled with surprise which showed clearly that they were questioning my perfect sanity, a fact which caused me no little embarrassment...