Word: chagrins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...horrified, fascinated, sneaks back to her at night, again & again, again. Vinca guesses his secret, confronts him with it. Terribly sorry but terribly proud too, Philippe confesses, hopes Vinca will not want to kill herself. Much to his surprise, she does just the opposite; to his bewildered chagrin, takes it in her uncanny feminine stride, teaches him a lesson about women that he will never forget, never understand...
When Lydersen is given a post office promotion over Berger's head, in deep chagrin Berger gets himself transferred to Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief...