Word: chagrins
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...mansion of their vast farm overhangs the wooded Chagrin River Valley, 15 miles east of Cleveland...
...Dickie" Byrd sees the cover meant to be a "likeness"-he'll never get to the Antarctic-he'll die on the spot of chagrin for being pictured as a freshman in the university of TIME...
Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
...This is real sportsmanship.' No, all this seems frankly incredible. Heretofore we have naively believed that the protests of the English in 1908 and of other foreign teams in later Olympics against the morals and manners of the American delegation were inspired by nothing more than the chagrin of defeat, but now-now our faith begins to falter...
Derco, the Fish-Goddess,was worshipped as Maiden-Goddess; and had therefore been careful to dally only with mortals, impotent as they were to affect her divine virginity. But Linus, secretly sired by a god, fecundated the unsuspecting Derco, much to her chagrin. Her temple was burned; her worshippers vowed they had suffered enough of her whims, and would choose themselves "a grave and reasonable man-god." Such is the pliability of human nature, that they soon built her a grander temple, while they chanted that virginity is silly anyway. Linus married the offspring that had caused the disturbance. "Little...