Word: failings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondering if you will have the courage to publish this letter in your next issue of TIME together with an apology for publishing the article to which I have alluded. I shall look with interest, and should I fail to find a satisfactory explanation for the "lapse," I shall see to it that the matter is otherwise broadcast, but without doing further violence to an already humiliated father and his two sons...
Only in the case of the Earl did hecklers score. They reminded Mr. Baldwin that Lord Birkenhead had recently written in the Good Housekeeping magazine (British) : "The incursion of women into. industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
Rustication. The Dictator sternly warned party executives that they must not lose contact with the masses, nor ignore or stifle criticism, nor fail to take effective precautions in advance of looming difficulties. Each of them must spend, he said, at least one month per year in the provinces, doing local party work...
...even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life...
...benefit of any Sophomores or Juniors who have not received ballots for the 1928-29. Student Council election, an opportunity is offered to obtain them today at Grays 6. In order to have their votes count, all men who have already received ballots must mail them today without fail. There will be no extension of time for voting...