Word: anticlimaxed
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...Protestant is Dr. High. Its Jew is Mrs. Estelle Sternberger, dynamic director of World Peaceways. Its Catholic is that voluble Louisville, Ky. varnish maker, Col. Patrick Henry Callahan. As their first joint achievement last week, Good Neighbors High, Sternberger and Callahan produced an eminent anticlimax by announcing that the Good Neighbor League is for President Roosevelt...
...active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Finally she went to Russia, rode on a propaganda train with Kalinin, talked to Lenin, listened to Trotsky. Going home that time, second class, was an anticlimax: "Hungry gluttonous people fell upon the good food wolfishly. The ship swiftly split up into the goods and the bads. The bads had a good time and the goods talked about them...
...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...