Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact-and no fault of aviation-that many a little boy of 1928 wants, some day. to be an engineer (the pilot of a steam locomotive). Still great is the appeal of the whistle in the night, the glare of the boiler fire, the singing rails...
...fault of the clergy that these beliefs are not already generally accepted, according to Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman. "They don't wish to disturb older members of their congregations with modern ideas...
Speaker Nicholas ("Nick") Longworth is the plump and debonair great-grandson of the winemaker in praise of whose golden wedding vintage Poet Longfellow wrote "The Queen of the West."* He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
...this calm acceptance of the Yale Harvard football game as a mere football game is a fault some of the blame might be traced to the football committee of which Mr. Jones is chairman and some of the other various committees of old grads. If these committees felt that the falling off of the "Yale spirit" is a real calamity they should have foreseen and forestalled...
...competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps a half-point was scored against...