Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testimony, never obtained which would definitely have nailed down the corruption case against Walker, or quashed it. Shortly after skipping town Sherwood turned up briefly in Mexico City with a new wife. Since then, no trace. The Press, which takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail, continued working on the case, none more diligently than white-fringed "Jim" Barrett, whom Hearst got when the New York World expired. Editor Barrett sent Reporter Allen Norton, an old World man, to prowl about the Sherwood apartment in Brooklyn, whither Mrs. Sherwood had long ago returned without her husband. Mrs. Sherwood...
...prodigious job that Jimmie Mattern had undertaken-to fly alone around the world and try to break Post & Gatty's 8½-day record-but hardly anyone expected him to fail in the first jump across the Atlantic. He had done that once before, and neatly, with the same engine and parts of the same Lockheed plane. That was last year when he and Bennett Griffin first tried to beat the Post-Gatty record. They cracked up in landing when a Russian field turned out to be a bog; but first they had made a superb jump from Newfoundland...
When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...mystery which for nearly six months has shrouded the choosing of President Lowell's successor will be cleared away before tonight unless Harvard's governing bodies fail to fulfill expectations. Both the Corporation and the Overseers will convene in University Hall at 9.15 o'clock this morning in a concurrent session and before they adjourn, the next president of Harvard will in all likelihood be determined...
...women, and talk incessantly of "women and children." If the cause of World peace has a strong argument today, it is to point out the phenomenon of post-war Depression, and the burden to the tax-payer of preparations, operations, reparations, and veterans legislations. This last "Men Must Fight" fail...