Word: chagrins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted (54-to-17) to lay aside the election of a President pro tempore after 25 fruitless ballots, thus leaving New Hampshire's Moses in that office, much to the chagrin of Republican Insurgents whom he called "Sons of the Wild Jackass...
...lead-off letter of your Nov. 23 issue caused me deep chagrin when I learned that for four years an Oregonian miss has been rolling on the floor each week with MY gift of TIME...
Local Boy Makes Good (First National) is the familiar anecdote* about a bespectacled and dazed collegian who, to his own surprise and the chagrin of his cronies, succeeds in an amorous enterprise...
...Akron over Portage Lakes and over the city of Akron where flowers are dropped upon the city hospital for an injured officer of the Akron's staff. Thence the airship heads toward Cleveland, first dipping her nose in salute over the home of Assistant Secretary Ingalls at Chagrin Falls. The ship flies on to complete a 125-mi. circuit...
...story concerns wealthy people who, it is fair to assume, would be bothered by fewer problems if they had more work to do. One of them is a youth whose fiancee has jilted him. With more chagrin than enthusiasm, he relapses into matrimony with the heroine who loves him and who is admired, puppy fashion, by a young architect. Natural complications arise. The husband meets his old girl again, starts an affair with her. His wife is angry, puzzled, finally sad, until feeble advances by the architect show her that one way not to find love...