Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Edna's step-grandmother offers to give her an education she leaves home unwillingly to be made into a lady. When, several years later, her step-grandmother dies and Edna comes home again, she has changed so much outwardly the villagers fail to recognize her. Complications follow almost immediately. In her absence her father has turned rumrunner; he never tells her, but she guesses it. Worse, in her new-found social world she has met and liked the two sons of her father's most implacable enemy among the summer people. They have never connected her with...
...satisfy the physical training requirement, there are numerous other elective sports which may be chosen by members of 1934. Among these are lacrosse, rowing, tennis, swimming, handball, fencing, equitation, soccer, or hiking. A physical inspection will be held for all entering students, and those who fail take special corrective exercises. Competition for Freshman football manager, which satisfies the physical training requirement, will open with a meeting at the H. A. A. Monday at 11 o'clock...
...concurred in by the German and the Englishman. They plainly regarded it as a mere subterfuge. Holding that the original concession had not been destroyed, and therefore that its arbitration machinery remained valid, they pointed to Article 90. It plainly provides that if one of the disputant parties shall fail to send a representative to the Arbitral Board then a unanimous decision of the Chairman and the representative of the other party shall be binding upon both disputants. This was the unanimous decision of two that the German and the Englishman made last week, having carried their deliberations from Berlin...
Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...
...British Government has continually implied that it was maintaining India in tutelage only until she could be educated to Dominion-hood. But the British lion last week roared his amazement at St. Gandhi's "diabolically clever'' plan. If the Labor Government attempted to give India Dominion status it would fail with the next election, said English politicians. If it did not, Indians would not attend the September round table conference, another blow at the Laborites...