Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks up his world. When a bomb brings down his unfinished cathedral on top of him it is almost an anticlimax...
...trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls, grunts and roars that when the fearsome Devil Tiger finally appears his death seems a mild anticlimax...