Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objective such as it has, it is difficult to see how any book could be made really compelling and not appear forced; certainly this attempt falls short. As a story it is interesting, vivid and effective, but one feels that it should be infinitely more so. Its chief fault is that it is unnatural...
...first reflection on hearing that Cambridge students are beginning to find fault with the methods adopted for their instruction is one of surprise that they have not done so years before. Unless Cambridge be an exception to the general rule of universities, a large number of those persons engaged in teaching and lecturing are totally unfit for any such occupation...
...criticism charged that the Harvard debaters were lacking in conviction, and were even desirous of arguing the other side of the question of their recent debate with Columbia University. Under the present plan of selecting the teams, this fault of the debaters has proven somewhat difficult to obviate. The new plan of having a series of discussions before any debater prepares a brief for either side of a question will give the candidate an opportunity to form his own opinions of the subject, and to hear all of the points that can be fairly and accurately expounded in the argument...
...hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault of the men who wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters...
...little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist, who places before his public such sordid material. Would not Pioneer's financial policy of Mussolini's relations with the papacy from a sufficiently worthy substitute for it.' But we are afraid, somehow, that this would fall to satisfy the popular demand...