Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures would serve as curiosities. But alike for the student of the future and the vast numbers of people who today can know little of Harvard life as it is going on, the pictures can do more. When popular novels, sports articles and an impression of indifference together fail to satisfy, there is no better way to know the life of a group of an institution than to see where it is lived...
...compellingly. There is a well-presented Scrub, with his cowardice and itching palm, whose happy phrase, "... and I believe they talked of me for they laughed consumedly" is one of the famous bits of the play. Archer and Aimwell, the Restoration gentlemen, played by Arthur Sircom and Milton Owen, fail to convince. Their stilted stage poise is an overdoing of the mannerisms of the epoch they mean to portray. The characters they should represent seem always just without their reach...
WITH his Harper Prize Novel, "The Grandmothers," Glenway Wescott sprang into literary prominence. With the remains of that impetus he now gives us a collection of short stories. Some of them were written before the prize novel, some after. At all events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West...
...Three Presidents have called him to great undertakings. Three Presidents have assigned him to extraordinary tasks. He did not fail them...
Last year, A. T. & T. viewed its experiment in trans-Atlantic telephones with misgivings. Few businessmen, tourists, picked up receivers and said "London, please," or "New York, please." Costly, difficult, the New York-London service seemed about to fail...