Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears. In the meantime, the forebears are busy stealing, seducing, murdering one another right under the modern Barringtons' noses. Finally, not one but two grisly skeletons are discovered in a hidden family closet, the elder Barringtons are crestfallen, the girl gets...
...couldn't go up so I had to come down, crestfallen and wondering what a regular determined go-getting she reporter would do under the circumstances...
...Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...managers jumped into the ring. Referee Jim Crowley, thin, baldheaded, hatchet-faced, ran from corner to corner, asking the two ring judges what they thought. One judge had not seen the punch. The other, an optometrist named Harold Reade Barnes, insisted it was foul. Accordingly Referee Crowley pushed Sharkey, crestfallen and dismayed, into his corner, declared Schmeling, still unable to stand, the winner...
...Chamber voted. The Government was defeated, 286 to 281. Twenty-two crestfallen ministers and undersecretaries of state left the chamber to gather round the bedstead of laryngetic André Tardieu, who vainly begged his doctor's permission to dress, deliver his resignation to President Doumergue in person. Reporters waylaid bleary-eyed Aristide Briand, asked if he would attempt to form another government. He shook his head...