Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round resplendence of their portly verbiage, verbatim copies of the new Australian Customs Proclamation were read in Manhattan last week, with relish for their quaintness, with dismay for their portent...
With the City Council and Association of Commerce stirring at the outcry of the Press, the Chicago police were filled with confusion and dismay. A general round-up of "Who's Hoodlum" (list lately compiled and .published by a citizens' committee) was ordered and the police stations were crowded with hundreds of idlers, toughs, men out of work. A few with police records were detained, but most were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city...
...Curran, cocky and combative, refused to let his Dry inquisitors dismay him by their wilful interpretations of these facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning...
...Granada, when he was recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by an unsuccessful love-affair. Just for something to do, he one day inquired for himself at the expensive Hotel Boabdil, thinking he would thus get a sight of the hotel register, see who was there. To his dismay the porter said the gentleman was in and was expecting him, led Tristram to a room. An elderly stranger rose to greet him: it was Tristram himself, but middleaged. He fainted, came to himself in the lobby of the hotel, left Granada next day. Soon he forced himself to forget...
...fine upstanding figure of a man is that of famed Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko. What was his dismay and rage, not long ago, to observe beside his picture in the New York American, the picture of a beetle-browed gorilla with fangs like clothespins and nostrils like the mouthpiece of a telephone instrument...