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Polly Kuhl '49, head of the 'Cliffe Varsity bowling team, expressed chagrin at the Annex eviction from the Harvard Square alleys last night. "When I heard the news," she sighed, "I was bowled over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Bowling Rolls to End As University Shuts Alleys | 3/20/1948 | See Source »

...started out as just a burlesque of giveaway programs, but, "Well, to my chagrin, people took it seriously. It's got out of hand. I wish we could start all over again from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hushabaloo | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

This week, in a U.N. novelty, the Russians swung in behind the U.S. They favored partition, too, said Soviet Delegate Semen Tsarapkin. The chagrin of the Arabs, who have coyly abstained from voting on most East-West issues, was deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Be Seeing You? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Your chagrin at Catholic Italy's going Communist amused me more than anything since I can remember, and I will be 88 years old next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...memories, the Galápagos were the home of a lady known as Baroness Eloise, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol. In 1934 she vanished with the latest of her seedy lovers and has not been sighted since-much to the chagrin of Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during the war on dry, red-dusty Seymour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Like Paradise | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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