Word: crestfallen
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...With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg-to open a blunt discussion of the many points on which Army leaders have long differed with the Nazis...
...Crestfallen were two other huntsmen when the Forest rangers pronounced their scrawny trophies of the day to be merely wild hogs, with little if any boar strain in them. Real boars were credited next day to a Tennessee housewife, a Chattanooga grocer. When the footsore hunters went home from the hills at the end of their third & last day, rangers revealed to reporters that not one of the six animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian...
...zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen who started beating up a swarthy little man only to have him scream "Fools! I am a Storm Troop leader from Bavaria visiting Berlin. Here is my Party card! I was a veteran of the Party when you were still rolling around in your diapers...
Pinned down for the first time to a sense-making statement of what he is, Father Divine stood crestfallen while Justice Panken observed: "You are a destroyer of children. You have taken a mother away from her child...