Word: chagrins
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...disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
...Household Cavalry's chagrin, acute though it was, could not compare to that of officers of the Foot Guards last week when they learned that a scarlet-coated, fur-busbied Scots Guardsman had vanished completely from his post at Buckingham Palace...
...Russia and impotent Germany could not influence the decisions of the statesmen in Geneva, a practical effect of the Hoover decision was to enable France and Italy to carry their point that "trained reserves" and "military supplies" shall not be reduced. The German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, expressed his chagrin as follows...
...Aintree, England. Among other horse-enthusiasts off to England is Horatio C. Ford of South Euclid, Ohio, president of the two-year-old Aintree Club of the same address on the outskirts of Greater Cleveland. Horses from Cleveland's Aintree follow trails near, through and beyond beautiful Chagrin Valley, long-hunted country of the Fifth City's riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed Air Secretary David Ingalls etc. Among Aintree-of-Cleveland members are Railroaders Frank and C. Farrand Taplin, President E. J. Kulas of Otis Steel Co., K. L. Grennan of cake and cooky fame...
Thus the bland Sir Joseph may well believe in an angelic guardian. But he must have felt twinges of both chagrin and resentment, last week, when it was announced that the Duveen opinions which had caused the Demotte suit had been sharply repudiated...