Word: crestfallen
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...hour after the game the crestfallen Brown coach Rip Engle ventured that "if the Crimson line plays the way it played today, Harvard will have a good chance at New Haven." Further he would not go, pointing out that Saturday's conditions were far different from the mud of the Bowl the week before, and that his team was "up" against the Crimson for its third game...
Nimrods. In Durand, Wis., two crestfallen hunters learned that the horned-game they had proudly lashed to their autos were goats. In Oakland, Calif., Stanley Chaconas returned from the hunt with two pheasants, flushed and caught by a dog before he could fire a shot...
...Crestfallen, the little man in the big beret made for the exit. As he reached the door, the official shouted after him: "One thing more. If there are any fleas here, they must have been brought by delegates...
Half the class was crestfallen when neither Keith (C.I.O.) Richards nor Irv Wellings could pick a R.R. freight, car incident from their vast storehouse of experience. Things are tough all over. Yet Jack Trumbauer can still have girl friends up from the City by the pairs. Whata...
...William Rothenstein once painted Einstein's portrait in Berlin. Throughout the sittings the great man conversed steadily with a thickspectacled stranger who sat in a corner looking "like an ancient tortoise." From time to time the stranger shook his head solemnly, and Einstein, crestfallen, would relapse into temporary silence. When Sir William took his final leave, Einstein explained apologetically: "He is my mathematician, who examines the problems I place before him and checks on their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...