Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clemenceau was the "Tiger," the atheist, the master. Foch was the strategist, the Catholic, the messiah of battle whose military vision seemed to come at times from a Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique...
...been working only one day at a time." To bankers, a day's work is a day's work, to be done well, thoroughly. Constantly repeated was the story that at every conference Banker Marcus had adopted an attitude of "You know you are afraid to let my bank fail, so meet my terms." Complicating the bank's affairs is the existence of 57 subsidiary companies which are believed to have borrowed $20,000,000 of the bank's funds...
...line the stories as a whole are scarcely distinguished. There is too much uncertainty of style and too little firmness of character delineation to draw them out of the ruck of immature undergraduate offerings. A possible exception is R. G. Evans' "Two Artists." The others for the most part fail to convince the reader that there was any justification for their being written beyond the benefit of the practice involved...
...past three months offer some basis for analyzing what may be the trends of future development. The houses so far naturally fail to fulfill the sweeping change of educational methods predicted beforehand, and even now somewhat naively visualized by the press and by visitors staggered by the physical splendor of the buildings. None but the most excitable, however, expected radical changes in the mental outlook of men who were to reside in the first two units. Nevertheless there has been a growth of ennui among those previously interested in the House Plan, and as the interest has waned, the sharpness...
...second act. The director remembered the girl who had been watching rehearsals, sent for her, asked if she could finish the performance. Mary Garden had never sung on a stage, never sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created a sensation. Her voice was curiously husky, uneven, but she played the role with such singular...