Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivery man who stopped in front of President Conant's house to deliver a birthday cake to Mrs. Conant returned to find his wagon missing. He gave vent to considerable chagrin and profanity...
...disillusioned freshmen, who were under the impression that the athletic department would "take care" of their promissory notes, discovered to their chagrin that they were expected to use the $48 a month they received from the university...
...bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully accepted Nominee Downey as a true liberal, let National Chairman Jim Farley promise him election support...
...since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...
...Chagrin In Worcester, Mass., Thomas Conlin stole a hearse. Chagrined to discover a corpse in it, he gave himself...