Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been referring to the depressing stabs Americans make at actual gayety--that is, when they are working so hard to have a good time. Americans at play are generally a gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled...
...splitting wide open between Whites and Reds. Dispatches from seasoned London correspondents reported "The British are aghast. ... To the British at least there is a world of difference between a trickle of arms sent furtively to Spain and open rivalry that would flood the country with war material. . . . Dismay in London tonight." Amid feverish excitement British Broadcasting Co. put on the air that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, as Acting Prime Minister, had just promised Labor Party leaders that Britain would join Russia in considering herself no longer bound by the Non-intervention Pact if the charges that...
...record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored to the park, put him at the head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive to be put out. To his dismay, Gehrig got a hit. Since his string began Gehrig has grown 20 lb. heavier, increased his yearly income from $3,000 to $30,000, married, replaced Babe Ruth, his onetime coach, as baseball's No. 1 home run hitter (49 this year). He now claims to dislike his record...
Meanwhile Democrats gave Charles Ben ("Cowboy Ben") Ross, an astute Bible-quoting politician who is the first Governor of Idaho ever to serve three successive terms, the Senatorial nomination over blind U. S. District Attorney John A. Carver. Idaho had, Senator Borah noted to his dismay, cast 7,000 more Democratic votes than Republican...
...Africa, the Chinese Revolution of 1927, the German Inflation, the Allied occupation of the Rhine. The book revealed a sensitive and searching intelligence that honestly faced the dominant political issues before the modern world, contained careful expositions of Communism and Revolution, gave a general impression of intelligent inconclusiveness, of dismay before the towering threats to contemporary society. Last week Vincent Sheean followed his best-selling (100,000 copies) autobiography with a volume which, while it seemed less likely to enjoy popular favor, was even more clearly in the nature of a call to readers to consider seriously the future...