Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Henry Church, a Chagrin Falls, Ohio blacksmith, musician and spiritualist preacher, who not only painted, but carved himself a colossal sandstone lion for a tombstone and recorded his own funeral sermon on a gramophone cylinder...
...First garden, which, you exultingly perceive, is filled with all manner of obnoxious weeds. Surely you know enough about horticulture to realize that weeds grow rankest where the soil is most fertile. Every good gardener, and your neighbor is one, eventually gets rid of his weeds, often to the chagrin of his early-season critics...
What was Mediator Davis' chagrin to have Boss Lewis drop a time bomb in his lap at week's end. Mr. Lewis suddenly proclaimed that there would be a deadline to the truce...
...Professor Packard explains, knows what his own voice sounds like, since it comes to him through the bones of his head. Many a Yardling will find to his chagrin that his voice is not the deep, masculine thing he thinks it is, but more like the chirp of some flutey little bird in one of the Yard elms...
...Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Tex. (pop. 6,303), where he was nicknamed "Bushface" (because of the mustache he took to camp), he still kept his homebody habits. Few weeks ago Mineral Wells's Chamber of Commerce, proud of its friendliness to men in khaki, heard with chagrin that Private Bushface Krause, alone among his fellows, had never thought it worth-while to spend 10?, ride three miles to town...