Word: chapfallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...