Word: comedown
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...Course college students are good dancers and get a lot of fun out of it But it's really a national sport. Comedown to Roseland Gardens in New York sometime and watch the tailor and the sailor tango. As a matter of fact, this district around have is one of the very best for dancing: people really mix here, you know...
...dusk, fly all night in an ecstatic frame of mind. Carlotta and the Irishman are convinced they are flying to heaven. Next morning they land on a rainy field which the Irishman recognizes only too well as his bedraggled native land. At first inclined to curse the comedown, he sees that Carlotta still feels they have reached their goal, lets her faith persuade...
...expansive granite steps of Widener Library have resounded for many years with the scholatic tread of many a Harvard celebrity. It sounds like a reversel of the evolutionary process to see them being used as for such a frankly social purpose as step-sitting. We think it quite a comedown from the high standard set by the activities of the Harvard Glee Club in step-singing...
...Detroit Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 71, proudly making her living on a "four-a-day" vaudeville circuit, told how she answered New York women who spoke pityingly of her "comedown." "I said, 'You! You have rich husbands. And your husbands are jumping out of ten-story windows these days. That is a comedown...
...stars, has not done the Director's health any good. It has not done Homer Vondorn's marital relations any good either. After a session in the Observatory his fat wife Georgianna, wearing a dress of blue georgette and a choker of garnets, is too great a comedown from the stars. To ease his troubles he takes nip by nip to drink. In the middle of a nightmare of domestic infelicity and over work he wakes up to find he has tuberculosis...