Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klein was not only crestfallen, he was embarrassed. He had to recall his printed invitations to listen in, and it was difficult to explain to acquaintances that his appearance had been canceled because he was just too good. So Mr. Klein filed suit, in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court No. 5, asking no specific damages, since the Hobby Lobby experience cost him only time out from business, carfare, etc., but leaving it up to the court to prescribe suitable balm for his injured pride...
After the Queen Mary briefly stuck crosswise in the river on which she was built, Britain's funnypaper, Punch, pictured a barge in similar predicament whose crestfallen helmsman called to the captain, "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary." With Cunard White Star officials still asserting that the Queen Mary was not deliberately racing on her recent record crossing (TIME, Aug. 22), Punch last week showed two tugboats running furiously neck & neck. "Racin'? Certainly not," says one of the tugboat captains, hoisting his nose high...
...just as Planner Townsend was about to give himself into the hands of a U. S. Marshal to begin his term, word came that Franklin Roosevelt had lent a sympathetic ear to Senator McAdoo, had pardoned Planner Townsend. Apparently not in the least crestfallen at losing a month's privacy and martyrdom, Dr. Townsend said: "It is complete vindication and an act of contrition on the part of Congress...
...With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...