Word: chagrinned
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Sour Grape. The Spanish expression of pique, chagrin and defiance consisted in the recall to Madrid of Count Quinones de Leon, whose place upon the League Council was taken by one Don Luis Quer Boule, a mere youth, an underling culled from the Spanish Legation at Berne...
Significance. Plain as a pikestaff loomed Pilsudski's chagrin at not obtaining a three-fifths parliamentary majority-either at his own election or Moscicki's-wherewith to amend radically the Constitution, increase vastly the executive power, and institute the broad program of reforms which he envisioned at the time of his coup...
...cage, built over 30 years ago, has proved of late to be wholly inadequate. Particularly chagrin was felt because of the size of the building, the cage being much too small to accomodate the baseball squads. The eramped quarters also restrict practice to a large extent...
...evident that for once the conservative and conventional people interested in education at Harvard have little to chagrin them in the more sensational sentiments of their supposedly more radical and more progressive contemporaries. The plan which Dr. Meiklejohn suggests is, in a sense, a part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years...
...Yorick is dead" those words have sounded down the centuries. And it is with sincere chagrin that the devoted readers of the Lampoon must echo them now. Yet perhaps, out of this debacle will come the experience needed to run an even more successful periodical. Phoenix-like another will rise from the ashes of Ibis to wing its witty way across the cerulean and appreciative heavens of a thankful Cambridge...