Word: anticlimax
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...past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen relief. Next day he proceeded to Tucson, delivered his anticlimax...
...ANTICLIMAX. Starched collars went down for the count of nine in 1922, but fought back bravely in '23. He arose to the occasion, for this brief hour of rekindled glory. A trifle world-weary, and infinitely more sophisticated, the fan mail he inspired reflected the change. 'I am writing you a few lines to let you know that I would love to meet you some time.' . . . But gone forever was such lyric ecstasy as '. . . would that I but touch that natural wave, and tie thy tie as only woman can, and smile into thine eyes...
...more excitement than many of the attempts and untoward incidents preceding it. Manhattan evening papers considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their...
...president of National Bank of Kentucky and BancoKentucky Co., he was seen in the offices of his Herald-Post perhaps once a year. Hence last week, when the paper passed in bankruptcy sale to John B. Gallagher, New York advertising man, for $315,000, it was but a faint anticlimax to Banker Brown's earlier troubles: the collapse of his financial institutions...
Four months ago occurred the debacle to which the trial of Lord K. (except for its pomp and circumstance) was anticlimax. At that time the preferred shareholders of White Star Line, all of whose common stock was held by Royal Mail, discovered that their own company was in horrid condition and Royal Mail was worse off. Lord Kylsant, controller of 34 shipping companies and 2,770,000 tons of craft, was roundly vilified by the shareholders (TIME...