Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Miss Corio journeyed to Guilford, Conn, to play Princess Kalima in the Chapel Playhouse, which used to serve as a community church. To the dismay of her audience, including many Harvard boys who write her love letters, she refused to do her strip. Said she austerely: "In Connecticut the theatre is art." She managed to pack them in at Guilford nevertheless. Relatively overdressed at the curtain, Miss Corio felt like a real dramatic star...
...Bernanos holds valuable: Anatole France. By the bloodstains of self-mortification on the priest's bedroom wall, by the silent stone odors of his church, Anatole himself is beguiled to an impotent, sensuous prospect of personal saintliness. It is at that moment that he confronts, to his dismay, the ravaged face of the man who has tried...
Last week staggering events and mighty pressures brought out the strength and weaknesses of the U. S. character. Signs of weakness there were aplenty. The most mechanically-minded people on earth-the builders of 166,794 factories, of 65% of the world's automobiles-learned to their dismay that they did not have enough airplanes to fight the kind of war Hitler had loosed on the world, did not have enough trained men to build the plants that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts...
...Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether a combination of dismay at the Allies' ineptitude, plus the Gestapo, which promptly moved in led by Gauleiter Terboven (TIME, May 6), plus the treachery of quislings, would eventually result in destruction of the Boyg, extermination of the Norse as a people with a soul of their own, their subjugation as helots...
...Helsinki, for the first time in this war, officials openly admitted dismay. Said an officer of the General Staff: "In spite of the fact that the Russians are falling in tens of thousands, they always have more men to put in. That is why we need help. We need more men, more guns, more airplanes. . . . We rely on other civilized nations to do their utmost to relieve...