Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every amateur photographer, having suffered this painful anticlimax, knows that he could take better snapshots if he could see the print at once, correct his errors and snap again...
...prevalent theory to account for the lamentable level of Lampoon excrescence is that the stories are written in the early morning hours as an anticlimax to protracted wassailing, and that the only way to appreciate the humor of the magazine is to read it in the same inebriated state in which it is written. It is time for the Lampoon to decide if it is to be a magazine or a club; and if it chooses the latter, then step down and make way for a decent publication. Name withheld by request...
Whatever Jack Kramer did after that was sure to be an anticlimax. In the second singles match of the day, he barely moved off the baseline, but easily defeated Australia's Dinny Pails in straight sets, 8-6, 6-2, 9-7. Next afternoon, when Kramer and Schroeder (twice U.S. doubles champions, in 1940-41) teamed up against Bromwich and Adrian Quist, it was Schroeder's day again. Even though he made winning shots look difficult where Kramer made them look easy, it was Schroeder who carried the load with his smashing net game. That clinched...
Facing the 90 man College Club, the New Haven Club led by Matthew Bartholemew, will render "Neath the Elms" and several other selections and will wind up with "Bright College Years," the song which ends with the famous anticlimax, "For God, for country, and for Yale...
...first impression of anticlimax soon gave way to serious comments. Said London's News Chronicle: "Nothing could detract from the essential solemnity of the occasion-not even the vulgar high spirits that . . . painted on this instrument of fate the picture of a pinup star 'in a low-cut gown.' We cannot defy history by guffawing in her face...