Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivalled perhaps only by its collection of legal books and manuscripts. Scattered through Langdell Hall and Austin Hall, the portraits become familiar to the ever-changing body of students but are little known to outsiders, even those interested in artistic things. The casual visitor to the School, however, cannot fail to be impressed by the size of the collection and by the intrinsic merit and value of the individual items. There are many etchings and engravings, but the chief glory of the collection is the oil portraits, many of them the work of distinguished artists. Particularly notable are the pictures...
...malice is sometimes the road to newspaper headlines. There will always be partisans desirous that the President should fail. . . . Every man has a few mental hair shirts and Presidents differ only by their larger wardrobe?for certain individuals, newspapers, associations and institutions officiate as haberdashers with a high generosity...
...leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby and scarlet-shirtwaisted, goes with: a slim fellow who proves to be incredibly cherubic for one who has served with the Canadian expeditionary forces. He used to be a Y.M.C.A. man. Not only does he fail to recognize Myra's profession, but he is not even intuitively wary. In that one evening he conceives the idea that she should marry...
...British Government is said to have compiled a secret list of twelve paintings, now in private British collections, which authorities consider too precious to let England lose at any price. If such a list exists it could hardly fail to include Titian's Diana, and Actaeon, Reynolds' Master Crewe, Romney's Gower Children, Raeburn's The MacNab, Gainsborough's-portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (owned by the King), Lawrence's Lord Lyndoch, two of Lord Ellesmere's Raphaels, or Rembrandt's Rabbi in a Chair. One picture which might well have...
...congestion of the courts and generally to repair and lubricate the entire machinery of enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...