Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...release. The reasons for this action are threefold. Harvard has always made it a point not to belong to leagues, which are binding on schedules, and we want absolute jurisdiction in this connection. Also, games have to be played after the Harvard-Yale game, and come as an anticlimax. They are often played at a distance from Cambridge and in inclement weather. Henceforth we intend to conclude the University schedule with the Princeton and Yale games...
...household machinery was already in motion, however, and a faithful cog, the seamstress, dragged him out alive. St. Peter philosophically readjusted himself to live out an anticlimax...
...cremation, the other players. After her cremation, the situation became powerful enough to keep everything on the run, including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better of him at the end of the last act; he shuddered, uttered a desperate anticlimax, and succumbed. The audience paid no attention to his fiasco, but was satisfied with the thrills that has gone before; well-schooled by the happy ending-at-all-costs movies, it was already groping for its bat under the seat...
...Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly...
...barge captain of a father; she falls in love with an Irish sailor. Both discover the moral wounds scarring her past. Their primitive mental equipment jarred by the discovery, they all but throw her back into the streets. Their final forgiveness is generally regarded as a flabby anticlimax...