Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good as it might have been, but which...
...fail in overthrowing the corrupt Pashitch regime nothing can prevent an early outbreak of revolution in Macedonia and Montenegro. As a last resort we shall appeal to the League of Nations. Croatia, with Dalmatia and Slovenia, formerly Hungarian, have a more western civilization than the rest of Yugoslavia and enjoyed a greater 'degree of autonomy under Hungarian than Yugoslav sovereignty. Fiume actually is in Crotia...
...once knew of a young man who came to one of the New York producers with his first play and said 'Here is a play that cannot fail. It has all the ingredients--15 per cent love interest, 20 per cent tragedy, 25 per cent action and 40 per cent comedy. It's a 100 per cent success.' He was writing from the rules of some professor at some college,--but I'm sure it wasn't at Harvard...
...lands. It is my duty to extend to every in dividual the constitutional right to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But I have another duty equally constitutional, and even more important, of securing the enforcement of the law. In that duty I do not intend to fail...
...time when, as the Yale News points out, education is on the theshold of its greatest test in history, in the course of which it must either fail completely or prove that it can be of benefit not, as in the past to a select group, but to a far wider and ever widening circle of mankind--at such a time any reforms, suggestions or policies must, to be successful, strike at the root of the matter. Within a short time with, as has already been pointed out, the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college...