Word: crestfallen
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Have you ever sat in a railway station and watched people killing time? Do they not sit a little like crestfallen angels-with their broken arches and their fallen stomachs...
Raphael Soyer is a shy little artist who would rather paint such crestfallen angels than anything else. His models, he says, are not professionals, but "mostly young girls who are interested in dancing or writing or philosophy. Usually they are not very happy...
...others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used to do a nightingale," he added, "when...
...Self-Addressed Envelope. Crestfallen George Morgan returned to the U.S. But in a year he was back, pleading again for 0-Yuki's hand. Once more she refused, and once more George left Japan, leaving behind this time a self-addressed envelope in case O-Yuki should change her mind. Then, without notice, 0-Yuki's law student quit school to marry a rich man's daughter; O-Yuki promptly mailed the envelope. Within 20 days, which was very good time in 1903, George was at her side...
...Life. In Marietta, Ga., jail officials sicked a pack of hounds on the trail of a couple of escaped prisoners, eventually found the crestfallen hounds tied to a tree. In Baltimore, William Ashby was charged with stealing a Doberman pinscher watchdog...