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Word: faulted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that my poetry had just one fault. He said that my supreme ability to feel, which he thought was greater than in any other girl's poetry he had ever read, had conquered everything else. Do you see? In the great wave of emotion, which overflows all our psychological dikes into the cistern that we call "poetry", I was slowly but surely drowning myself. "Your surrender is always too complete," he said. "You give too much, always." (No, I like this way better...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...that is my besetting fault, I know. But at the same time that is probably why I can get along with men, because there are so few girls who give of themselves, if you know what I mean. I mean, there are so few girls who really give of themselves. And as a result they never have any men that they can really call friends. From the time I reached the age, if you know what I mean, I always wanted men to be my friends. To be completely the woman, as that Lampoon boy said, and yet to have...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...well be that we shall discover among the mass of statutes, judicial decisions and administrative rulings which now confront us, some that are law, some that are partly law, some that are no law, and some that are antilaw. . . . When conduct and the law are at odds, the fault may lie with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Ass, A Idiot | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...will the Congress work with Hoover?" The question was and is often asked. An inkling of an answer appeared last week while the House Appropriations Committee was considering the Budget Bureau's figures for running the Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Capitalizing | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard Dramatic Club is to be congratulated for its initiative in producing new and untried plays. The chief fault of most college theatricals is that they have a tendency to produces a play that has gained reputation on a professional stage. Trusting on the name of the play, rather than their own Individual presentation to assure them of success," declared Michael Gold the author of "Fiesta", the Dramatic Club's fall production as he turned away from a group congratulating his latest contribution to the dramatic world to give a short interview to a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author of Dramatic Club's Latest Offering Praises the Undergraduate Thespians for Producing Untried Plays | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

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