Word: chagrined
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...Vagabond has a pleasant surprise to unfold to his minions this morning, albeit with chagrin. The chagrin is due to the fact that he almost lost his reputation, and despite the inroads of ultra-modernism, he is still old-fashioned enough in matters of this kind to wish to retain that intangible quality. The manner is thus: for the better part of a year this columnist has had his eye on a certain date, which falls on this coming Saturday. He had planned to set it aside as Official Vagabond Day: insignia and epaulets were to be worn...
...explanation short, gave the officers a sound verbal spanking, stalked from the field, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Edward M. Shinkle, commanding officer, and his staff, standing at rigid attention. What, they must have wondered, would be the result of the artillery-men's subtle insubordination? Profound was their chagrin. Would the episode give rise to Army legend? They had not long to wonder...
...happens that my eyesight is seriously impaired and I frequently carry opera glasses to help out. I had anticipated pleasure in looking at, and identifying, many of the august (?) members of the upper house, including Borah, Glass, Tom Tom Heflin who mortally fears, etc. Imagine my chagrin when I lifted my glasses to my eyes, to be told by the doorkeeper that it was verboten to make use of opera glasses in the Senate galleries...
Fairchild cabin planes were early favorites in Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defense owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...
Three days after the disappearance, a rabbit hunter found Nelson 25 miles east of Cleveland near Chagrin Falls, where the Alleghenies give their last, low roll towards the Great Plains. He had jumped just before crashing. The jump apparently stunned him. The half-open folds of his parachute quilted him too thinly. Unconscious, he froze to death, hard by the busy Cleveland to Pittsburgh motor road, the tenth mail flyer to die on the New York-Cleveland route...