Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crestfallen were two other huntsmen when the Forest rangers pronounced their scrawny trophies of the day to be merely wild hogs, with little if any boar strain in them. Real boars were credited next day to a Tennessee housewife, a Chattanooga grocer. When the footsore hunters went home from the hills at the end of their third & last day, rangers revealed to reporters that not one of the six animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian...
...zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen who started beating up a swarthy little man only to have him scream "Fools! I am a Storm Troop leader from Bavaria visiting Berlin. Here is my Party card! I was a veteran of the Party when you were still rolling around in your diapers...
Pinned down for the first time to a sense-making statement of what he is, Father Divine stood crestfallen while Justice Panken observed: "You are a destroyer of children. You have taken a mother away from her child...
Speaker Hipel was made the goat of New-Dealer Hepburn's need to do away with some frippery or extravagance last week. "I guess you'd better cut out your Speaker's Reception," the Premier told crestfallen Mr. Hipel, then bawled at reporters: "We'll have no teacup juggling ! There may be criticism in the City of Toronto but the man out in the back concession is applauding what I'm doing...
Mopping their honest faces on a sizzling Alberta afternoon, district leaders of the United Farmers Party met last week to pass political judgment on Provincial Premier John Brownlee, found guilty fortnight ago of "enticing and seducing" an Alberta Government stenographer, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan (TIME, July 9). Crestfallen Premier Brownlee had nothing to say, but the judge before whom he had been tried had plenty...