Word: disappointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preceded by a fanfare of trumpets, the two teams left the Lampoon Building at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon in order to get to the field in time for the conflict and not disappoint the large crowd of spectators who had already gathered for the annual event. Proceeding through the Square to the accompaniment of automobile horns and cheers of the student body the rival athletes hung all over the horse-drawn vehicle and were forced to dismount to help the laboring animals over the Dary Anderson Bridge before they could get to the field and play the game...
...Ennuie" is a charming relic of an almost forgotton period: the 1880's. A drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
...contents of the Cup did not disappoint Skipper Konow the next day but the outcome of the race did. Just before the starting gun, when it was too late for Konow to follow suit, Skipper Shields broke out a long-tailed Genoa jib and under it his boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when...
...influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry Adams remain the best summary of Grant's limitations. In himself Grant seemed to contain several distinct personalities: 1) the timid man who could not refuse a gift or disappoint a friend; 2) the general who would not lose a battle; 3) the ignorant countryman who thought Venice would be a fine city if only it were drained; 4) the energetic administrator who habitually relaxed, when energy was most needed, into apathy and silence. Such bedfellows naturally made strange politics...
...what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to expect of its president, at its annual get-together for exchange of news and views. This year's president, William Whitehead Watts, 75, emeritus professor of Geology at London's Imperial College, did not disappoint B. A. A. S. when it convened last week in Norwich. Professor Watts talked about Earth. "The Earth." said he, "is 'a lady of a certain age,' but she has contrived to preserve her youth and energy as well as her beauty...