Word: chagrins
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...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...
...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...