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Word: chagrined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis had naturally assumed that his King would communicate with Greece only through the Greek Minister to Great Britain. He discovered to his chagrin that George II was exchanging cables privately with the head of another group of Greek Royalists who want parliamentary government instead of Kondylis' Dictatorship. They are headed by onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Last week in Athens a frequent caller at Tsaldaris' house was Britain's Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: By the Grace of God | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...With Captain Eden as ringmaster, Nov. 18 was set as the date on which all League States will apply such of the proposed sanctions against Italy as their governments have ratified by that time. Most of the sanctions seemed likely to be applied by most League States. To the chagrin of loyal Leaguophiles, famed "Proposal No. 5," the only active Proposal, under which League States would assist each other to compensate for losses incurred through application of sanctions, had not been ratified last week by Britain. In a love feast of honeyed speeches the 52 nations which voted last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Peace Will Be Made! | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lawsuit in St. Louis | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...which looks like what it is supposed to be and "Modernist," which does not. Last year the "Conservatives" were indignant when a "Modernist" won the Art Salon sweepstakes prize. This year they managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rural Revelry | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Such a huge choral festival was the ambition of Boston's bustling Emma Fisher who has never forgotten her chagrin of 14 years ago when she went to Switzerland as a delegate to an Anglo-American Music Conference. There she discovered that Britons could sing and that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Amateurs | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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