Word: disappointments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappeared from our literature, and attempts to revive it somehow have not seemed to click. It is a thing of the nineteenth century; and those who try to bring back into reality the scenes and haunts of their youth which they have long yearned to immortalize, are doomed to disappoint a reading world which today seems interested in a different type of American literature...
...Eager to disappoint a hungry Tiger, the track team departs tonight by boat to take part in the dual meet at Princeton tomorrow. With the decisive triumph last weekend in the Greater Boston Intercollegiates, the chances of the 23 men whom Coach Eddie Farrell has chosen to make the trip-look better than they have yet this spring...
...tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint them. With a theatrical flourish the Mayor-elect declared...
...Farewell to Arms (Paramount) will disappoint only those pessimists who, hearing about the difficulties that cropped up during the adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last...
...playing time is entirely unsatisfactory. No House team wants to lose, but football games between Adams and Lowell, or Dunster and Eliot, are not Stadium games. It would be far better to lose a game and have every man play for a reasonable period of time than to disappoint the substitutes who appear for practice daily and to leave them with the feeling that they are engaging not in a sport but in a strategic battle between House coaches...