Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps, a melancholy consideration that the progressive organization which attempted a War Protest meeting on Widener steps yesterday morning has not yet learned that methods which obtain in Union Square fail sadly here. A Washington Square harangue will always be met with a certain derision in the Yard; bad grammar will ever meet tutorial reprimand: "I'm sure the Prince of Wales said 'doesn...
...merchant attempted to force his clients to purchase a number of his products each time they desired one of them, he would most certainly fail, yet this is just the type of selling which is embodied in the current practice of block booking of movies. The producers force the exhibitors to contract for a whole block of pictures which they must accept regardless of their merits. The theater owners are unable to oppose this system for they must have a frequent change of program and delays in the arrival of film are fatal to them...
...said his birthday message for him: "I am a conductor and outside of the province of my own work I am conscious of the lack of power to give expression to my feelings, either to a visible or a radio audience. . . . We recognize our great responsibility. For if I fail in bringing you accurately what has been written, or if this great orchestra fails by one note, we cannot make the perfect whole which he, the great composer, had designed. . . . If each of you today will send a tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some...
Late at night, often with a copy of the first sheet off the press, the candidate trudges wearily back to his room, sighing over the thought that tomor- row will be the same. Alarm clocks fail to rouse the slumberer, but admonishing friends are always present to jeer the news hawk on his way. They fail to realize, he says to himself, that yesterday he was in the midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped...
They forget all that when they fail to see sense in his labors, and thus he can, without a twinge of conscience, urge them to come out for the next competition. The candidate can enjoy the taunts of editors, he can submit to their criticisms of his stories,--for some will chide and criticize--for inside he has felt the thrill of knowing some thing before the others, of meeting strange people in strange places...