Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce as false-seeming. The embarrassment should end speedily; the work will tout itself. The strategy will soon fail; people will want to known more...
There are certain things one does not talk about at the luncheon table. A detailed description of personal diseases, for instance, however arresting the symptoms, rarely furnishes appetizing aliment for conversation; revelations of exotic fissures or cavities in the teeth (illustrated) often fail to elicit applause; while a discussion of loathsome and fatal afflictions of the skin, together with an account of the sufferer's pangs and an outline of the methods used to relieve same constitutes a type of data even less acceptable to the fastidious...
...again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire of India...
...French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views of some the war is in reality for their possession...
...note also Fascism counts 3,000,000 adherents, whereof 2,000,000 are Syndicalist workmen and peasants, thus representing a politically organized majority of the nation. Even the Italian Opposition now recognizes the great historical importance of Fascist experiment which has to be firmly continued in order not to fail in its task of morally and materially elevating the Italian people and also in the interest of European civilization...