Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialists. What with the rain and the split, Premier Pierre Laval, astute and earthy, was able to face the Chamber of Deputies with a small piece of paper on which he lazily drew lines back & forth with a stubby pencil. Except for the continuing flight of gold, the anticlimax could not have been more complete. "Save the Franc." Whipping himself up, Socialist Boss Léon Blum burst into an oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical...
...risk of ending on an anticlimax, I will take up two more points which Mr. Bingham makes. He relies very much on the report which Mr. Brundage brought back from Germany after spending a week there. I believe that one need only underline the fact that Mr. Brundage does not speak German and when he spoke to leaders of German Jewry, he did so either in the presence of official representatives of the Nazi government or with them hovering ominously in the background as it were. Even if these leaders of German Jewry did give a clean bill of fare...
...feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after he had distributed presents brought from the ends of the earth, he announced his determination, there was no conflict. Solace's parents surrendered her without a struggle. The anticlimax sets the pattern for Silas Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering the history of the Crockett family from 1830 to 1933, it is packed with data on U. S. shipping...
...opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what looked like an inevitable anticlimax of more arias, prolonged congratulations and embraces by hero and heroine, the curtain comes down and Metropolitan is over...
...policy. He makes friends with the insured, teaches him handball and health rules, brings him back from Bermuda bursting with bounce and sparkle. The schemers call in a hussy whose amorous ministrations they hope will hasten their employer's collapse. Thence the comedy builds up to an unerring anticlimax. The employer marries the hussy...