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Word: upsettingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upset that startled France most was that of Edouard Herriot. For the first time in his political career he failed to win his seat on the first election. Apparently the voters of Lyon felt not so guilty as he had hoped over France's failure to pay its War debt to the U. S. Piqued, M. Herriot cried loudly that he would retire forever from politics, a statement that required a soothing long-distance call from Premier Sarraut before M. Herriot would consent to participate in a run-off that should be a walkover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Upsets Before Setup | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...gets mixed up with "the last of the Mississippi showboats" and anonymously brings its cast to Broadway to amuse the sophisticated audience of his forthcoming, production. He falls in love with the heroine of the showboat's melodramas, who is also the daughter of its owner. Naturally she is upset when her New York audience laughs and cheers instead of weeping at the histrionic attempts of her cast, and departs in a rage. But Harry pursues her all the way back to the Mississippi and there woos her with the song "Life Begins When You're in Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Freshmen Upset Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '39 DEBATERS DEFEAT ANDOVER TEAM BY 2-1 | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...last of a series of preliminary debates, the Freshmen last night upset an Andover team at the Union, by a vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '39 DEBATERS DEFEAT ANDOVER TEAM BY 2-1 | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

Blond, muscular, young Surrealist Peter Blume upset many a critic two years ago when he won first prize in Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Exhibition with a slickly painted abstraction of twisted topography and soaring sailors called South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). One of the eight art Fellowships went last week to Surrealist Blume to continue daubing at a small anti-Fascist canvas he began on Guggenheim funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guggenheimers | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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