Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myrrh and frankincense to the harassed directors and producers. With films barred from first one state and then another on account of an actor's misdemeanors or an actress' imprudence, it must be comforting to know that the Brazilians prefer American films because they show "American life", and never fail to point a moral! To the jaded American move-goer, this moralizing is usually the last straw which urges him to demand his money back; while his object in going at all is often to get away from the realities of "American life" and lose himself in the make-believe...
...there has occurred a third possible solution which, while a policy is yet being formulated, might well be considered. It is briefly, intending to set that "absolute standard" which is essential, to admit only those who pass the New Plan comprehensive examinations in June. In regard to those who fail to pass a June examination or those who come in under the one seventh provision, the conclusions of the CRIMSON seem soundest...
...some reasonably severe treatment ought to be accorded the offenders, who in spite of their scarcity still manage to cause confusion and inconvenience. Mr. Lane, the librarian, in barring such men from the Library until after the Midyear period has chosen the punishment with justice. Those who fail to regard the privileges of others deserve to lose their...
Third, no men should be admitted who fail to pass their English entrance requirements...
With hesitation it may be asserted that the facts fail to prove the case. Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...