Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry on his foreign policy before the League. M. Doumergue courteously went through the form of asking M. Herriot to form a Cabinet, since custom did not allow him to call upon the fallen Premier (Briand) until someone else had "failed" to assemble a Ministry. Needless to say, M. Herriot "failed" instanter-rather, he "declined" and "recommended" Briand as his successor. President Doumergue then called in the much harassed Aristide and persuaded him to form his ninth Cabinet...
Raoul Peret. As Premier Briand's third Finance Minister in as many months, M. Peret has fallen heir to the seemingly insoluble fiscal problems of France. His immediate predecessor, Senator Doumer, failed to solve them, although he is one of the greatest fiscal experts in France. His predecessor was, of course, M. Loucheur, "the richest man in France," a great industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week...
...producing only the male sex hormones, have been extremely satisfying, as in the case of Dr. Lorenz. The Steinach operation is performed, however, on young men-the potential fathers, heads of families-with great reluctance. In some cases-from sexual excesses, from overwork, from disease-spermatozoa production has fallen off or ceased entirely. In "older" men, usually in those who have reached their sixties, similar falling off or cessation occurs. For such the operation is beneficial. They will pep up, with all the connotations this vulgate word implies...
Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent's* symbolic series of world religious history on the walls of the Boston Public Library is almost everywhere considered among the best of modern religious work.† At present Architect Ralph Adams Cram is working on a design for a sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track...
...Jews consider his portrayal of the synagog as a fallen, ineffectual institution, a libel on their religion. Vandals befouled this particular mural with ink some years back...