Word: anticlimaxed
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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...
...whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
...artillery. Bagradian knew it was the end, hardly cared. His only son had been captured and brutally killed. His French wife had turned against him. He himself had fallen hopelessly in love with an Armenian girl. Just as the final assault began, something happened that seemed to Bagradian an anticlimax. But to Ter Haigasun, the priest, and to the remnants of the 5,000, it was a miracle...
After such action, the rest of the Legion's business was strictly anticlimax. St. Louis was picked for next year's meeting and a successor to National Commander Edward A. Hayes was named. He was Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr., 39. of San Francisco. Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire...