Word: anticlimax
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When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
Last week in a characteristic anticlimax Larry Kelley had the grippe. The 7,500 hero worshippers who went to Boston's Fenway Park to see him-only a third that many people ordinarily go to see the Shamrocks-were disappointed. Larry Kelley was present, but sitting in a box with a muffler round his neck...
...News, which has stanchly supported the Governor since news of the microphone got out, felt justified in printing the transcript in full was a fair indication of its contents. What Colorado has been waiting for for six months turned out to be not a juicy scandal but a feeble anticlimax. Garbled and often wholly unintelligible, the transcript gave Coloradans an interesting insight into the informality with which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson had entertained two young ladies...
...after the personal testimony the newsreel was almost an anticlimax. Still shots used in the hearings had been sharper than the cinema versions...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...