Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese division. With...
...cigar had failed to light. Cameras clicked. Cinemachines whirred. Up swept a bright limousine with the flag of the rising sun streaming from its radiator cap. Stepping in, with the cold cigar still clenched between his teeth, Japan's Matsuoka was whisked to his hotel, consoled his crestfallen staff that night with a champagne supper. His next duty, having defied the world, was to report home...
...time. For at that moment another Texas Congressman, paralyzed Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, put his black-gauntleted hands to the wheels of his rolling chair, pushed himself up to the rostrum and squiggled his name in the 145th blank space. Derisive Wet whoops from both sides of the House squelched crestfallen Congressman Blanton...
...Crestfallen but still truculent, "Bossy" Gillis declared: "I'll take my lickin like a man. . . . But I'm going to watch coming administration and if anything isn't going right I'm going to get my gang together and see about...
Promoters of the fair, all British, were privately upbraided by Edward of Wales for not advertising it as an all-South America not just an Argentine affair. There is still time, advised H. R. H., to retrieve this stupid blunder. To the crestfallen promoters the Prince of Wales estimated that he personally had persuaded at least 2,000 South Americans who would not otherwise have come to visit the fair?no petty achievement for the "Empire Salesman" since most of those personally persuaded were potent folk...