Word: chagrins
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...Dieudonné Costes' rueful exclamation was all the chagrin of frustrated egotism...
Myron Timothy Herrick, beloved and Francophile U. S. Ambassador to France, sailed from Manhattan last week?as usual on the French Liner Isle de France? to resume his post in Paris. Pale, he had just recovered from one more severe illness at his home in Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland...
...Baltimore would grow greater as a port, reached by the C. & 0., B. & 0., and Pennsylvania. This is important in view of the growing commerce with South America. New York City might also be relieved of some of her traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central...
Life and Life. No picture could be half so dismal as that of the office of a humorous magazine where the staff feels that it isn't considered funny enough. Hollow with chagrin, wild with despair, sounded the laughter in the studios of Life as the old staff prepared their swan-song for the presses. A shadow seemed to lie all through that final number, with its reprint of favorite drawings from the spent twelvemonth...
...Mayor Ho Chi-Kung of Peiping urged Chinese to multiply more rapidly, last week, after discovering to his surprise and chagrin that the population of China has remained stationary at about 400,000,000 for the past two centuries...