Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far Mr. Offord has found no takers. With chagrin Sir Bernard and Scotland Yard's smartest inspectors told a Brighton Coroner's Jury last week that, as for Corpse No. 1, they have not been able to determine how, when or where she met Death, or who she was. As for Corpse No. 2, the acquittal of the Dancing Waiter has left Scotland Yard with no candidate for the murderer of Violette Kaye. Said imperturbable Sir Bernard Spilsbury, frankly baffled, "I find myself unable to reach any conclusion...
...late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress are suspected of killing a night-club person. Mobilizing vast resources of wit, charm, and coolheadedness, Miss Collier leaves her house in her electric motor car, competently brings the niggling little mystery to its proper conclusion. A minor mystery to cinemagoers...
Once there was a student who took great pride in his work. His marks were the delight of his parents, the envy of his classmates, and the great satisfaction of his instructors. But to his great chagrin, he got an 'A' minus on a Philosophy 3 thesis...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...
...famed Symphony in B Minor. Historically, he wrote it in 1822, two years before he became music teacher to Caroline Countess Esterhazy, with whom he may have been in love. According to this picture, Schubert (Hans Jaray) actually finished the symphony, tore up the end of it out of chagrin at seeing Pupil Caroline (Marta Eggerth) married off to a Hungarian nobleman...