Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theoretically so afraid of armed rebellion that ever since a squib communist uprising in November 1935, he has been governing Brazil's 48,000,000 whites, blacks, Indians and mixed breeds under the terms of a proclamation that a "state of war" continually exists. To Getulio Vargas' dismay such a state suddenly threatened to materialize last week in his rich home State of Rio Grande...
...than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
...Alice's dismay, a dinner party by her family for her boy friend's is interrupted first by an actress with the heebie-jeebies, then by a Russian who wants to wrestle, lastly by a party of raiders from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A night in jail, however, softens up the haughty Kirbys. By the following evening the course of true love is smoothed and Grandpa is able to gather his family and friends and in-laws-to-be about his dinner table, amiably ask his customary benediction...
...accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition of the Tour from far inferior sources, could not decide whether to whoop with joy or shrick in dismay. Unperplexed by any such dilemma. Viking Press is whooping with...
Only Gilbert and Sullivan could do justice to England's royal marry-go-round. In the center ring the emperor of one sixth of the world kneels before a twice-divorced charmer from the southland, while on either side the lords temporal and spiritual beat their breasts in dismay, the American press makes the cables blush, and there is distinct teeth gnashing in the orchestra pit. Last week the Communist Party investigated reports that Mrs. Simpson was pro-fascist, but the situation is losing its farcical nature, and certain events show that England's ruling class is profoundly disturbed...