Word: falter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angry Poland, an expectant Russia, a wailing China and an Irish Free State brimming with cussedness were on the capable hands of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Geneva last week, and he is 72. Never once did the verve, élan and practical wisdom of this Gascon grandfather falter. He is the grand practitioner of the Old Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves...
...primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public the conviction and justification of the book falter seriously after the treatment...
...temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called the Biblical simplicity of Fisher's style is a characteristic that appears only in the best of it; a slight falter in Biblical simplicity can produce a very unBiblical dullness...
...sect but its faculty and officers were caused to sign an eight-point credo of such stout Fundamentalism as to make even the Apostles' Creed seem liberal. Bryan put on its letterhead: "An Institution which Recognizes Revelation and Accepts the Supernatural." Last week Bryan demonstrated it would not falter. Henceforth matriculants will be obliged to pledge themselves as follows...
...redeemed at the Treasury. He and President Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite and inflation are dangerous to handle, but there are times when an appalling necessity demands their...