Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods to and from the Italian port of Flume. With Jugoslavia encircled as she now is this project can scarcely fail of accomplishment. Hungary gained a port last week...
...indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...
...this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice. If the courts fail in this will to do justice, the conscience of men must make itself heard...
...large majority are generously enthusiastic over the subject. The significant fact is that more and more of the Alumni are coming to realize that the Fund is for the many rather than for the few. "Being hard up myself", says one man, "but not wishing the gift to fail of unanimity." Another one writes...
...Flannels (Louise Dresser). Mother Politz insists that her boy Frank keep his pants clean and go to college. She insists that he drop his puppy love affair with his coal-mining-town sweetheart; that he be a football hero; that he evade the college vampire. When he seems to fail in her ambitions, Louise Dresser screws up her face marvelously and weeps colloquially. When he comes from a coal mine rescue in his white flannels and fondles his original sweetheart, his mother beams. Production is an evangelical hymn played on a portable melodeon-staccato...