Word: comedownance
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Following its brilliant display of inspired baseball in winning over Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson nine yesterday staged as discouraging a comedown as four fatal errors can produce, and went down to a 4 to 3 defeat before a slightly better Brown team. Brown took advantage of every slip by the Crimson in the second game of a series which the Cambridge outfit was expected to carry off like the first...
Said Mrs. Hannah Andrews, of Brooklyn : "He was a lovely man, so gay and happy, never minding his comedown in the world a bit. I'll never forget the day he brought home a saxophone. Just like a child, the way he took it up. He was one of my best boarders...
...Acts" appearing at Keith's Palace, and he dilates on the relative merits of grand opera and vaudeville. After detailing Burke's former operatic successes at Covent Garden and " the principal European capitals,"he asserts: "The Palace opening, far from being regarded as a ' comedown ' may be regarded as the climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow...
...Yale's defeat by Princeton a year ago and Harvard's victory, left the question of supremacy a doubtful one, but by her double success this year Yale has undeniably taken first place. For Harvard to be forced into the tail position after her past triumphs would be a comedown unpleasant to consider, and therefore the men selected in Friday's trial from whom the final team is to be chosen, are expected to spare no pains in making their preparation thorough...