Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct Lynnewood Hall at Elkins Park he showed only his best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia's dismay) some $50,000,000 worth of oil paint's primest pedigrees: more than 100 "best-of-brush," over such names as Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt...
...enemy, all civilian men became militia, all the people left their houses, destroying all food stocks. In this dress rehearsal for the scorched earth policy which, two years later, Napoleon met in Russia, the French troops discovered "with surprise at first, then with anger, and finally with something like dismay, that they were entering a devastated country whose inhabitants had vanished. Towns and villages and hamlets were empty and ominously silent; no obsequious mayors came forward to placate the victors; crops had been reaped and removed; valuables and furniture had disappeared; even the grain mills were dismantled...
...writing in reference to ... the opinions of TIME readers . . . concerning "PinUps for Morale" [TIME, Sept. 27). To my dismay and concern, I have heard too often echoed among my own acquaintances the opinions of [such] readers...
Cracked the Daily Mirror: "Some few mitigations may be allowed in the certainty of relieving depression, discouragement, dismay, accidents, blindness and boredom. Until then, we submissively bow our heads and, as we bow them, crack them into other heads bowed in the opposite direction...
...Peace. The people responded with anger and dismay. In Milan, despite Premier Badoglio's ban against public assemblies, they gathered in shattered streets and cried: "We got rid of one tyranny; now we must remove another." In Rome crowds shouted "Peace!" and knelt to pray with Pope Pius XII who came from the Vatican to see the raid damage...