Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Halliday in the lead, as the Red Sindow, and Eddie Buzzell, the comedian are very fair. Halliday almost satisfies as the two-faced hero, who must be simple-minded or bold and bad in quick alternation. Buzzell has nothing to offer but his lines, and when they fail him, as they so often do, he looks for the wings, but he can always come out well for an encore and never give it a virtue, of the first water...
...disgrace of defeat in the coming action. . . . When battle came, the Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with the U. S. and Britain...
...news organs throughout the Empire: "Men who are engaged in sport for sport's sake belong to the highest class that the country can boast-clean, generous, high-minded. When this class has the opportunity to compete with the same class of representatives of another nation it cannot fail to sow the seeds of a mutual knowledge and understanding which will ripen into a lasting fine friendship between the nations...
...from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...
When cities bake and even country breezes fail, she picks up an extra load and carries...