Word: chagrins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledged to secrecy as to the volume's contents. Title of the book comes from a well-known Barrie legend. When he first went to London he decided to visit the late Editor Frederick Greenwood of St. James's Gazette, bought a new hat for the meeting. To his chagrin, an office boy relieved Author Barrie of his cherished hat before he came into the editor's presence...
...with a good deal of surprise and chagrin that I noted, on scanning the list of stations that were to be hooked up with your presentation of "The March of Time' (TIME, March 9, p. 63) that the great open spaces of the West (not to say interested readers of your great weekly out here) had been left entirely out of the picture. How come? And to complete my wail may I further say that the commendatory and congratulatory comments by subscribers and others in Letters (TIME, March 23) on the first of these broadcasts served only...
...Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, he argued small jury cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility a big local bank directorship. He bought a modest estate in green, pretty, outlying Chagrin Valley and took to horse ?polo-wise (foxhunting was a trifle slow). For years he never touched airplane. Nor did it occur to him to travel to Europe. There was plenty of work, fun, people in Cleveland...
...prizes but many a press notice was tousle-haired John Kane of Pittsburgh. Artist John Kane is a house painter and kalsominer by profession, has attended no art classes, had no technical training whatever. In 1927 a picture of his was shown at the Carnegie International to the chagrin of other Pittsburgh artists. This year Kalsominer Kane was the only local artist to win a showing with a landscape of Pittsburgh's grimy "Strip" district...
...pretty much exhausted at the end of the affair. But then I really am nothing but a Middle Western boy. And when I look at my pictures, I am pretty much shocked at how terrible I am," and at this Mr. Rogers indulged in a gesture of the deepest chagrin, "You probably don't notice the faults as I do, but they seem to me to be very bad at times...