Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...
During the last three weeks, neuritis attacks have crippled Leopold Stokowski and made it necessary for Assistant Arthur Rodzinski to conduct the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Last week in Carnegie Hall, he had enough of enforced idleness, made up his mind to disappoint his audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening...
...thing to ask anyone called "Miss Australia": would she enter the current beauty contest at Atlantic City, where pursy bankers, showmen, hotel loungers and politicians sat in judgment upon the curves and proportions of "Miss Texas," "Miss Georgia," "Miss Idaho," etc., etc.? Beryl Mills did not like to disappoint her interviewers. And she thinks "all this talk about how vulgar you Americans are," is "silly." She thinks Americans are "perfectly adorable," especially U.S. college girls, even if they do smoke more than Australians and use "ever so much more" makeup. Nevertheless, she was obliged to say no, certainly...
...livestock, holding their own; dairy and poultry products somewhat behind. But it looked forward to a farm income of 12 billion dollars for 1924-25, as compared to 11½ billion dollars the year previous, and 9½ billion dollars in 1921-22. It suggested that cooperative marketing might disappoint those who have very great hopes of it, and expressed the opinion that, in aiding the movement, the Government's assistance would be of most value if confined to the indirect services of advice and information. The farmers must be left in complete control of their cooperative enterprises...
...what they were not, and never intended to be, that failure was doubly emphasized in the eyes of those who had persisted in misunderstanding them. In other words, the Games were considered in a false light from the beginning by a great many persons: and consequently were dobmed to disappoint a great many persons a disappointment which showed itself in the exaggeration of disagreeable incidents, in the second place, those who competed in the Games were far from being trained diplomats, or even, perhaps, average representatives of their countries. They had been picked, not for the impression they might create...