Word: crestfallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most prestigious paper. Other reporters, getting past army checkpoints as "engineer" or "sugar planter," had to make an arduous climb, but they were rewarded with long, friendly chats. To oblige CBS, the rebels took in 160 lbs. of television equipment. One big-paper correspondent on his way up was crestfallen to discover a reporter from Boy's Life on his way down...
...forest, like the singing birds flitting from branch to branch, sections of Scriabin's Third Symphony or Divine Poem, which was being composed at the piano in the neighboring house, spread and echoed under the foliage." The adolescent Pasternak decided that he was "destined for music." But crestfallen that he lacked absolute pitch and that he could not even properly play what he had composed. Pasternak abandoned music after six years of study. He retains one of Scriabin's mystic ideas: that art, religion and life are one, an eternal and infrangible entity...
...Mail. But Lord Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England and the father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high as ?1,000) the daughters of better-heeled but less nobly born parents. Said Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, headmistress of Cygnet House...
...long ago, Father Jacques decided that what his parish needed most was a good school, and he promptly set about building it. Where did he get the money? "Oh," said the little priest airily, "our good Lord helps me." This was not quite the whole truth, the crestfallen parishioners of Giadinh learned last week. Rounded up in a Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks...
...Imam to his people when he allowed his daughter to expose herself in public, offending every right-thinking Moslem? Urged on by the French, back-country chiefs signed up, until El Glaoui had the signatures of 311 of Morocco's 323 caids. In a matter of days a crestfallen Sidi Mohammed was bundled onto a plane with his two wives, five children, and assorted veiled ladies of the court for exile in Corsica. El Glaoui briskly produced his replacement as Sultan-goateed Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, a timid cousin of Sidi Mohammed...