Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacular, Chinese with a decidedly Italian flavor, the story of a beautiful, cruel princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head if he should fail, guesses right. But Turandot, poor in sporting blood, will not give in, causes a slave girl to die for not disclosing the Prince's identity, holds herself stubborn, until the Prince's kiss tells her that his name is Love...
...Divine. She begged Bishop Manning to allow her to remind him that only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont, "is, why this change on your part, dear Bishop. ... I am still a divorced woman...
...second of the motifs which run through the Gadfly is a rather vague and undefined protest against the word "unassimilable", as used in the Student Council report. It is held that this interpretation will exclude most of the valuable men in college, the intellectuals because they may fail to make final clubs, the Jews because they may not be athletes, the commutes because they may not add the local color that Brown gives to Harvard. The assumption is made by even Mr. Villard that the "assimilable" man is nothing but the "clubbable" man. That this betrays almost complete failure...
...number of years ago my own town of Waltham used to vote 'yes' one year and 'no' the next on the dry question. The general degradation of the people was so much less in the dry years that no one could fail to observe it. And it seems only logical to suppose that if Prohibition were a decidedly good influence in Waltham it would also be throughout Massachusetts and the whole of the United States...
Various are the workings of the reforming mind. From that distant time, so ancient as to fail admission to the field of divisionals, when a reforming officer from Olympus kept the only two humans in existence from the grass of Eden, reformers have flourished the weapons of restraint. And now in the sacred precincts of academic freedom these praying, preying protestants of all the joi de vivre and verve of life have found in modern science a means of making more moral the minions of culture...