Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their receptiveness, their spontaneity, must be dull indeed if they fail to be ecstatic over "To Helen," "Ulalume," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee," "The Bells, " "The Haunted Palace," "Israfel" and the crowning glory of "The Raven," or they would not glibly drop such sentences as "two-fifths sheer fudge...
...lover of good music and a lover of fair play, I protest against the sneer at Irving Berlin in TIME of May 10, p. 18. I fail to see why the cafe in which the little boy earned his living should be dragged out again and again for the sole purpose of insulting one of our real musical geniuses...
...larger purpose--that of broadening the minds of the students, not only by way of facts learned and information gathered in the many countries visited, but through personal contacts with individuals, observation of peoples and forms of life hitherto strange and unknown to them. Such an experience can scarcely fail to enrich the minds of those taking part in it, at the same time creating new interes's for them and producing a truer perspective on their own lives and the country to which they will return. The difference is more one of attitude rather than places visited...
...rather insulting bit of bombast, this. No preparatory school youth can fail to sense from afar the intellectual superiority that is Harvard's. Pity it is that be must put his ear to the ground in doubtful expectation of ever hearing a human sound to urge him hither! A Crimson Reader (Female...
...What did Clarence Dillon fail to buy last week...