Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago, Lord Robert Cecil said that the future of the world depended on the young men. At least one hundred Harvard men have taken him seriously, and their tactics could hardly fail to win that gentleman's approval. The "Harvard Committee of the College Division of the League of Nations Non Partisan Association", must, if it lives up to its name, be a strong, if somewhat pompous, influence on the student political attitude...
...International League for Peace and Freedom, sent a letter to Mrs. Lucy Biddie Lewis of Philadelphia, National Chairman of the United States section of the League, in which they stated: " We owe reparations; reconstruction of Northern France is a debt of honor with us. The French in 1919 failed in their great opportunity, when they might have forgiven us. Shall we fail in ours...
...VEGETABLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks...
Unless present plans fail, Mike McTigue of Ireland will defend his world's light-heavyweight title against Georges Carpentier, former champion, in the Yankee Stadium, New York, on July...
...course, all this declamation is as silly as it can very well be. No one denies the nobility of such sentiments. No one in his senses could fail to approve the action of committee and Board. And, parenthetically, no sane member of either body could very well have reached a different conclusion. But, nevertheless, the incident is anything but a triumph of toleration and a victory for free thought. On the contrary it is a magnificent example of the power of platitudes...