Word: crestfallen
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...Crestfallen but still truculent, "Bossy" Gillis declared: "I'll take my lickin like a man. . . . But I'm going to watch coming administration and if anything isn't going right I'm going to get my gang together and see about...
Promoters of the fair, all British, were privately upbraided by Edward of Wales for not advertising it as an all-South America not just an Argentine affair. There is still time, advised H. R. H., to retrieve this stupid blunder. To the crestfallen promoters the Prince of Wales estimated that he personally had persuaded at least 2,000 South Americans who would not otherwise have come to visit the fair?no petty achievement for the "Empire Salesman" since most of those personally persuaded were potent folk...
...duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears. In the meantime, the forebears are busy stealing, seducing, murdering one another right under the modern Barringtons' noses. Finally, not one but two grisly skeletons are discovered in a hidden family closet, the elder Barringtons are crestfallen, the girl gets...
...couldn't go up so I had to come down, crestfallen and wondering what a regular determined go-getting she reporter would do under the circumstances...
...Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...