Word: chagrins
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...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...
...averaged some 55,000 shares a day (against the new market's 8,000 on opening day). Some old New Yorkers can still recall the high hopes they had when they bought Bertha & Edith at 8?, the higher hopes when six months later it was 39?, the chagrin when it was stricken from the list as valueless...
...neck." Investigation proved the owner of the inner tube to be a vacationer who, fortnight before, while repairing a flat tire, had been attacked by a deer, had thrown the tube in defense, landing it around the deer's neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter's home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting...
...once each year for a legal maximum bag of game, not for the bleacher authority on batting averages. Its rich illustrations depict gentlemen riders taking jumps handsomely: "Mr. Lewis Lacey . . . leads Mr. Hopping over the boards in the third match at Meadow Brook"; a priest blessing the hounds of Chagrin Valley Hunt Club before the chase...