Word: disappointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will finish this job before I die. I can't disappoint the graduates...
...Wouldn't Disappoint Fans...
...dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing for the good earth from which their fortune had sprung. Just before his death he overheard them planning to sell his old farm, the only thing he really loved...
Odds-on bets on the subject of the fiery dictator's drama would probably not disappoint their backer. "Campo di Maggio," Il Duce's brain-child, is being given in Hungary as "The Hundred Days." That Mussolini's favorite hero, the Little Corporal, will hold the center of the stage is not to be doubted. The choice of subject has its advantages. If the artistic merits of the play should prove incapable of raising it above the waters of Lethe, it will at all events be kept above the waves by half a dozen lines in the bibliography of works...
TIME, I'm devoted to you, please don't disappoint me! ELISABETH MCSHERRY...