Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Ponce de Leon sought the elusive fountain of youth, and Ponce de Leon achieved lasting fame. Messrs. Rice, Rehm, and Buffam, however, are after nothing so ridiculous. What they hope to discover is a new and dazzling type of feminine beauty. They may fail: it would seem scarcely credible that any cranny of the earth remained still hid from Mr. Zeigfield's keen-eyed scouts. And failing, they will be ridiculously ridiculous where Ponce de Leon was sublimely so. But the world will hope for their success, if only to see what a shock Mr. Zeigfield would receive...
...party. By the very nature of the party nomination machinery, candidates must be apparently colorless enough to please the majority (or in the Democratic party, two-thirds) of the party delegates. And since each party has come to be afraid of advocating strong, positive policies, lest it fail to please a majority of the total population, the temporary rule of each is a succession of wishy-washy compromises and dodgings...
...centenary of the founding of Rugby football from which American football originated," said General Sir Percy Sykes, famous Persian traveller, who has always been interested in the game since his undergraduate days and whose family has been actively interested in the sport during the entire century. He did not fail to see the University-Yale encounter last Saturday. He continued...
Tomorrow afternoon, the Cercle Francais will produce three one-not plays under the same auspices and on Friday evening the fail dramatic season will close with a second performance of "Le Depute de Bombignac...
Nevertheless that either one of the opposition parties should win a clear-cut victory seems well-nigh impossible. Then, if the Conservatives fail to retain their majority, the world may be treated to the spectacle of political legerdemain resulting in a coalition of strange associates, soon to be followed strange associates, soon to be followed by another general election. At any rate England seems to be in for an interesting time...