Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third was L'Homme ct scs Fantòmes by H. R. Lenormand. Like his Fail- ures, which the Theatre Guild produced last year, the play was episodic. In content, it dealt with a modern Don Juan...
...ends; Joss and Butterworth, tackles; Root and Sturhahn, guards; Captain Lovejoy, center; Allen, Pond, and Cottle, backs; and Bench, quarterback. Bingham, who has been out for a week because of a bad knee, is now in good condition and will be able to start the game on Saturday without fail...
Many other points of the encounter were worthy of note, but these, perhaps, were the outstanding ones. To the Crimson observer the general impression was that Yale was dangerously powerful in all departments of football, and on only one occasion did the power fail; after the game when hundreds of undergraduates tried to tear down the goalposts. Ten minutes hard work availed naught The Palmer Stadium goals were made of Iron pipe...
...fair instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...
...University joined the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League this fail taking the place of Cornell...