Word: chagrinned
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...prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until the enterprising team reaches River Falls, Miss Damita habitually chooses the ticket to Hollywood, permitting her colleague to pocket the $1,000. At River Falls she asks for the $1,000, much to Muldoon's chagrin. After the usual ups and downs in the film capital she is promised a big part, but just then her sweetheart from New Jersey appears. Goldie renounces her career, leaving her producers, Muldoon and the plot...
...found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
...Good Housekeeping magazine Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President-elect, wrote of the marriage of her son: "Eleanor and Franklin often to this day laugh over their chagrin when, immediately after the service had ended, and they took their places in the receiving line, they found that their guests were more concerned about greeting the president than in congratulating them. For an awful moment, the children insist, they were left entirely alone while the crowd hovered around Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, shaking him by the hand...
...best they could English economists concealed their chagrin last week at New Zealand's disturbance of the "sterling area." Ever since England went off gold London has been told that sterling, not gold, is the best basis for the world's currency. Several small countries, such as Denmark, have linked their currency with the English pound. Last week Premier Forbes, by an act which amounted to offering New Zealand pounds at cut rates, injected profoundly disturbing elements into Empire finance...
...ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...