Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
...Russian Revolution provided the great climax and anticlimax of his life. As a member of the Red Cross Mission during Kerensky's term of office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds...
...Superintendent Cornish, with his attention firmly fixed on convictions, the drudgery of detective work was more important than individual brilliance; confessions were better than the most artful chains of circumstantial evidence; medical analysis was tricky and unreliable, since doctors often disagreed. Greatest anticlimax of Cornish's professional career came when a young signboard fixer named Field confessed to the murder of Norah Upchurch. Scotland Yard had only circumstantial evidence against Field, suspected when Norah Upchurch's body was first discovered, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown. No progress...
Officially, the Washington v. California race starts the U. S. rowing season. Actually, it often makes more highly-publicized regattas that follow an anticlimax. Since 1921, with two exceptions, Washington or California has been either first or second in every Poughkeepsie regatta, against the best competition in the U. S. California crews won the Olympic championship in 1928 and 1932 but this year Washington's Coach Al Ulbrickson felt sure of eight sophomores he had retained as a unit from last year's powerful freshman boat. Said he, before the boats lined up last week on Oakland Estuary...
...nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper...