Word: chapfallen
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Tough, intelligent, determined and, now, icily angry, Oxford-trained Economist Hugh Gaitskell had saved his claim to party leadership and served notice on the somewhat chapfallen neutralists that they had won only one round. But with the intraparty fight still unsettled, the Labor Party looks as if it will not be a serious contender against the Tories for a long time to come...
...chapfallen Dodgers shuffled off to Japan. "We'll win every game." said Captain Pee Wee Reese, just as if it mattered. Back in Manhattan, Charles Dillon Stengel creased his 66-year-old wrinkles in a broad grin. Retire? Well, he might have said something about it. But the fact was that he had just signed a -new contract to manage the Yankees for another two years at a fat $80,000 a year. What were 66 years to a man who had just won his sixth World Series and seventh pennant in eight years as the Yankees' manager...
...manners has come and gone since Dreiser wrote Sister Carrie in 1900. By 1916, H. L. Mencken had hailed this "Indiana peasant" as an ally in his war against sentimental fiction at the same time that he made a whole chrestomathy of Dreiser's woebegone phraseology and chapfallen cliches...
...with an emotional speech about his own affection for the Kabaka. "It was the more painful to me because he was a member of my university, and of my regiment [the Grenadier Guards], and a friend of my son's at Cambridge!" The press applauded, the critics subsided chapfallen...
...generations, as thick as shingles, in every mud-walled Mexican church. Like jazz, Mexican art is the product of exuberant talent rather than of training; like jazz, it has produced few first-rank geniuses, but the scintillating feats of line-&-color-crazed Mexicans often leave the learned doctors chapfallen and confounded...