Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea how to project, and she would come bounding onto the stage like a gazelle. But she had that rare thing-audience authority, the thing that makes everybody look at you when you are on stage." When things went wrong, Audrey would make her final exit crestfallen and out of breath from trying too hard. "I didn't get my laugh," she would say in distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted across the street like...
...with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked into store-front vaudeville at $22.50 a week and changing his name every time he got fired, playing his clarinet in bawdyhouses when he was stranded, and periodically turning up in Circleville for another few crestfallen months sweeping out the family store...
...Crestfallen and dejected, Salesman Auguste could only moan: "There ought to be a law ..." Well, maybe there was. Last week blonde Madame Viviana and Professor Pedro were haled to a Paris criminal court by Auguste Chaussumier, whose mistress' husband they had failed to kill. "For what does he reproach them?" demanded the defense attorney. "His wish was at least as immoral as their actions. And if they had not offered their services, who knows but what Chaussumier might have gone to a professional killer...
...annual CRIMSON-Lampoon war games run off today. In the midst of battle, her decks awash, her superstructure stove in, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington sank beneath the foam carrying those aboard to a watery bier. "I never thought she'd go down," murmured Able Bodied Seaman Donald Crestfallen...