Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen the horrors of war and contemplated the tragedy of the mass slaughter that war entails, can fail to appreciate the motives that are causing peace strikes all over the country. But there are many who strenuously object to beclouding the issue with social problems and labor agitation. Every national malady should be treated and discussed at the right time and place, and labor problems are very pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely...
Rapidly the halycon days of leisurely warmth are approaching, when one can peal off his coat and relax on the banks of the Charles, of sensuous nights, when one can still peel his coat and gad about in open automobiles. Each year without fail the coming of spring means the return from hibernation of America's only nationally recognized institution. When you see pictures of broad-smiling, becapped youths and old young men in the papers who are reported to be "holding out", when mothers miss their offspring regularly in the long afternoons, when mayors start exercising their arm muscles...
...editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored...
...Zamenhof of Poland. Says Henry Louis Mencken in The American Language: "The trouble with all the 'universal' languages is that the juices of life are simply not in them. They are the creations of scholars drowning in murky oceans of dead prefixes and suffixes, and so they fail to meet the needs of a highly human world." Freestyle Philologist Mencken feels that Basic, "for all its deficiencies," is better than any artificial tongue because it is derived from a living...
...Lenin's letters are like business letters. But it was a big business he was about, and as his scheme slowly progresses from small successes to failure to near-success to triumph, even businessmen readers will scarce forbear to cheer. Irritation, anger when schemes go wrong or partners fail him, Lenin frequently shows; personal feeling, almost never. The letters to his wife, Krupskaya, and references to her before and after marriage, are as impersonally businesslike as all the others. Only in his letters to his mother does he show a personal face: to her he is unfailingly tender...