Word: disappointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acclaimed as the last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...abolition of 150-pound football will undoubtedly disappoint that small group of men who played the sport during its two-year existence. It provided exercise and enjoyment for a class of men handicapped by size from competing for the University team and, when it was established, had a definite place in the Harvard athletic program...
...those persons who paid The Original Henry Romeike Press Clipping Bureau for the service of seeing their names in print, began to observe a new slogan on the little colored slips to which each clipping is pasted. It read: "Be Sure It's Henry. Other Romeikes May Disappoint." Contrary to the implication, there was not a long list of Romeikes to confuse the unwary clipping client. The bitter warning was raised solely against the late Henry's brother Albert who had gone into business for himself two years earlier following sharp disagreements with Henry's son Georges...
...feet, solemnly marches around chairs, makes quick, delightful gestures with his hands, makes and repeats quiet, sure remarks to the other characters. He is immensely enjoyable because he seems never to act, which means that he is acting hard all the time. It may. therefore, surprise but not disappoint his admirers to learn that Friendship is not a good play by any means. Nor will it prevent them from going to see George Michael Cohan...
...shall not disappoint the nation, and on my return, if you are inclined to feel that I have let you down, it is open to you to expel me. Not only that. If you lay hands on me and kill me I shall not consider it an act of violence...