Word: failings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtuse, but I must say I fail to catch the meaning of the title under Senator Walsh's picture this week (TIME, March 12). You say he is "Mrs. Harriman's helper" when the article alongside says that Mrs. Harriman helped him. Please explain...
...could be possible for anyone attending the Madison Square Show to fail to observe the magnificent setting; almost faultless management; unprecedented attendance; the wonderful collection of highly bred, superbly conditioned and groomed animals enthusiastically handled, in many instances, by some of America's most representative men and women who cannot be fittingly termed "haggard, dirty or inarticulate...
...persons at Albert Hall, applauded the new and yet familiar sequence of sounds. Just what it meant no one could be very sure, nor did Mr. Baldwin stop to explain. Instead he plunged to a ringing conclusion: "If in Great Britain our work for Democracy should fail, our failure would shake the very fabric of the universe...
...from whence would come the heir apparent to the honored place on the library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...