Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls at the School will be released to go out into the world at the age of 21 or before. In my judgment the influence of such punishment as I have outlined cannot fail to brutalize and arouse prejudices and passions that will be of long standing...
...Norris writes like an incurable romantic for almost the same reason Louisa May Alcott did. Miss Alcott had brothers and sisters to support. Mrs. Norris feels she must support the hearts of the thousands of people who began to write her letters when she began writing books. She cannot fail her public. A devout Roman Catholic, her conscience is with her as constantly as her portable typewriter, which it is not unusual to see in action on station platforms or in railroad cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected...
...side in Flanders. For four years Williamson never went home, were never out of the trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
Girls. Henrietta Additon, New York City, collated questionnaires from 1,600 Brooklyn girls, found that "only 13 of them fail to ask their parents' permission to go places. More than 90% spend time on home study. The majority attend church or Sunday school...
...spiritual entrails" and as "a hermit of the Brothel". He has been compared to Dante, to Laforgue, to Swinburne, to Blake, and to a long, long list of other poets. But such clever descriptive phrases as those quoted above from the essays of Mr. De Casseres and Mr. Symons fail to catch the whole man, they fail just as any single attempt at comparison fails. For a true understanding of this most important of all French poets one must turn to his greatest work, "Les Fleurs dn Mal"--a collection of poems in which he himself confessed there...