Word: letdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before hooraying for playwright Knox, it must be pointed out that too often his "thrills" turn out to be fakes. The "murderer" ringing the doorbell turns out to be only a Western Union boy, etc. The audience feels not only a considerable letdown but also the embarrassing feeling of having been duped. However, the game soon starts all over again, and this time--you're sure--it's in earnest...
...Army boys warmed to the fight. They had brought along a sign which referred to an unfortunate prediction made last week by a Boston sportswriter to the effect that Army would suffer "a psychological letdown...
...Here's the psychological letdown.'--Bill Cunningham...
After Basil Rathbone's neatly trimmed and waxed voice, Bing Crosby's narration of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a letdown. The suspicion that Bing isn't taking the tale seriously is disquieting. The doings of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane are tailored to fit Crosby rather than Irving; that is probably why much of the charm of the first episode is missing in this one. There is enough left over to make good entertainment, though...
...outrageous little hat, she made it brief-just a few apologies (for a gate that was not open, for the amplifiers and the unfinished stage), and a few promises, most of which by week's end had been kept. To some, Minnie's speech was the biggest letdown of the evening. Complained the astonished Daily News: "She made sense...