Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
British sewing circles went into a tizzy when a news photograph of Princess Elizabeth's private desk showed an ash tray and what looked like a cigarette box. The London Daily Express speculated whether the princess smoked in secret. Ready to believe the worst, a crestfallen spokesman for the National Society of Non-Smokers announced: "The society isn't downhearted, of course; we just have to work harder...
...pair tells it, a 3 a.m. awakening found Copey even more irascible than he was in class. "Boys, go away," he growled. The crestfallen postulants departed, but they left the stein on his doorstep "as a mute offering of respect and friendship...
...SUBTLE BLASPHEMIES IN SILVER-If you'd rather die than give something dull, the schizophrenic stuff we call jewelry will save your worthless life . . . Don't risk a crestfallen Christmas...
...that most Italians simply did not believe that De Gasperi's government was implicated in Pallante's stupid crime. In a message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped by 50,000 (to 2,200,000) in the past year...