Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed. The number of aspirants is limited by the assurance that should they fail they face a firing squad. On the tunic of Major Fey hangs the Maria Theresa Order. He still believes in direct action. The Heimwehr is officially unarmed, but its officers carry a supple, square-edged bludgeon of raw oxhide known as an ochsenknüttel. During the great Heimwehr parade...
...bear children and probably to be sterilized if contraceptive measures fail are women who have tuberculosis of the lungs, chronic Bright's disease, serious heart disease, certain mental disorders, or have had three caesarean operations...
...remove some 600,000,000 lb. of pork from the market this year, and 1,800,000,000 lb. (16% of the pork crop) next year. Said Mr. Wallace: "I am not worried about this emergency program. But I am terribly concerned lest the Corn Belt should fail to recognize how really dangerous this program can be unless it is tied up closely to a long-term program [reduction of corn and hog production next year]. . . . The after-effects otherwise would be disastrous to hog prices for the 1934-35 season and for some time thereafter. . . . The real solution must...
...Griffith made all the minor Hallams monsters instead of people. At the two Hallam parties-in which most of the action of the play goes forward-the guests behave with such dismal lack of manners that it is hard to believe that anyone clever enough to marry Stella could fail to share her dismay. With this flaw, Another Language remains a sharp, dreadful and amusing picture of middle-class domesticity especially notable for a brilliant performance by Louise Closser Hale, who died last fortnight. Good shot: old Mrs. Hallam reviving from a faint when she hears the Victrola playing...
...back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs in the final of a tournament at Seabright, N. J. This made it look as though her game had finally grown up. Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, who put up the trophy for a series...