Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently expected that the cupidity of these towns and sections will demand that their Congressmen and Senators vote for this bill or threaten to penalize them if they fail to join in this squandering of money. . . . Our nation was not founded on the pork barrel, and it has not become great by political logrolling...
...dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness for honors. They should not deprive the man who fails of his degree. Such examinations should be given in the Junior year, with a second chance in the Senior year granted to those who fail in the first...
Jack Oakie is the loyal friend who makes it his life work to help "Speed" snap out of the doldrums after the crash. Oakie is right in his element here and the two best sequences are rough-house scenes between the two pals. The female members of the cast fail to show much initiative, moving mechanically at the director's command. The audience remains well-pleased, however, as the story runs smoothly and maintains its happy-go-lucky atmosphere throughout...
...reach. What is more, due to fall in incomes of those who formerly contributed to scholarship funds, many of the institutions furthering international exchange of students have been forced to make drastic cuts in the number of awards made. Harvard has a definite substitute to offer for those who fail to cross the Atlantic to centers of international politics...
...speak-easy visitor and inducing him to sign checks, often raised later, is known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage...