Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make for fairer rivalry if the nation's training school for young men would conform to the ruling which practically every college employs. The CRIMSON did not attempt to speak for the players, who would have to be consulted if any action were to be taken, not did it fail to realize that no such action could come before the expiration of four years. Even at that time Harvard will do nothing about Army's eligibility standards, since the athletic authorities only ask that Harvard's opponents live up to their own rules. But if unofficial criticism can bring Army...
From the rise of the second-act curtain to the end of the play the comedy is delightful. If the romantic moments fail to convince one of the sincerity of Ronnie as much as the "in vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just...
...They Hoard? The average man withdraws his money from a bank in gold or gold notes ("Seepage of deposits," President Hoover called it) for just one reason: he is afraid the bank will fail and his money will be lost...
...Sound British Hearts." There being only 42,000,000 people in all Great Britain, Rothermere mass suggestion at the rate of 5,000,000 papers daily could not fail to have some effect. London-New York cables were busier than usual. Many a British investor sold his U. S. securities last week, received U. S. gold-secured dollars and exchanged these into paper pounds sterling "which are based," the Daily Mail explained, on "more than gold bars," namely "on the sound hearts of the British...
Chico impersonates a tough Italian, Zeppo makes friends with a pretty girl. Presently the boat docks and the Marx Brothers are faced with the problem of getting off without passports. This they try and fail to do by singing like Maurice Chevalier. Harpo, most furious at having his queer purposes interrupted, leaps on the desk of a passport inspector. Grinning wildly, he tears up thousands of important papers, stamps the pate of the chief passport inspector with a rubber stamp. The Marxes go to a party. They have contracted simultaneous alliances with two rival gangsters aboard ship. At the party...