Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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tives and adverbs that the high point does not break through sharply. John Finley Jr. writes interestingly in the "Memoirs of Captain Wottlebottle" about a land where the people regard as religion just what we regard as despicable baseness, yet where they fail so generally to live up to their religion that their life, all in all, turns out to be very much the same as our own. Burke Boyce discusses with the essayist's amiability some of the romance of browsing in Cambridge bookshops and finding second-hand textbooks which bear interesting marginal annotations. Charles Allen Smart contributes some...
Governor Ritchie of Maryland: "This conference failed and all other similar conferences will fail as long as they refuse to face the basic question, whether or not prohibition enforcement should not be turned back to the States themselves...
Richard the Lion-Hearted. There is certain utility in historical motion pictures even though their dramatic values are moderate. The most determined dissenter of the schoolroom cannot fail to ingest romantic staples such as Jeanne d'Arc, Peter the Great, Lincoln and a hundred others, including the hero herein discussed. The development of this mental negative into an actual picture on the screen clarifies modern preconceptions of the past. If the representation is authentic the picture returns permanent profit to the spectator...
Windows. The Theatre Guild opened its sixth season with a capable little comedy by John Galsworthy. It is a thesis play, indicating that mortals fail to face facts; the windows through which they look at life are dusty. Chief exponent of the argument is an unfortunate girl who takes domestic service after a prison term. She is promptly discovered in the arms of the son of the house. While these things furnish two hours of agreeably interesting conversation, it cannot be said that the plan is either philosophically or dramatically momentous...
Work on the production of "A Strange Land", by Miss Ann Wilson, will begin immediately after the meeting of the 47 Workshop candidates in Massachusetts Hall at 7 o'clock tonight The play will be given on November 2 and 3 The competition is still open to men who failed to sign on October 2, but those who fail to report tonight will not be allowed to compete...