Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averaged some 55,000 shares a day (against the new market's 8,000 on opening day). Some old New Yorkers can still recall the high hopes they had when they bought Bertha & Edith at 8?, the higher hopes when six months later it was 39?, the chagrin when it was stricken from the list as valueless...
...neck." Investigation proved the owner of the inner tube to be a vacationer who, fortnight before, while repairing a flat tire, had been attacked by a deer, had thrown the tube in defense, landing it around the deer's neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting...
...once each year for a legal maximum bag of game, not for the bleacher authority on batting averages. Its rich illustrations depict gentlemen riders taking jumps handsomely: "Mr. Lewis Lacey . . . leads Mr. Hopping over the boards in the third match at Meadow Brook"; a priest blessing the hounds of Chagrin Valley Hunt Club before the chase...
...Vagabond has a pleasant surprise to unfold to his minions this morning, albeit with chagrin. The chagrin is due to the fact that he almost lost his reputation, and despite the inroads of ultra-modernism, he is still old-fashioned enough in matters of this kind to wish to retain that intangible quality. The manner is thus: for the better part of a year this columnist has had his eye on a certain date, which falls on this coming Saturday. He had planned to set it aside as Official Vagabond Day: insignia and epaulets were to be worn...
...explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked from the field, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M. Shinkle, commanding officer, and his staff, standing at rigid attention. What, they must have wondered, would be the result of the artillery-men's subtle insubordination? Profound was their chagrin. Would the episode give rise to Army legend? They had not long to wonder...