Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence a myth. Togas avasi, of the dictator has good publicity...
...ever seen him down a glass of intoxicant. In the Jungle, Jumbo has taught the survival of the fittest. "If a man walks down the street with $100 in his pocket and some one knocks him over the head and takes it, that's his fault...
...from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...
...heiress to wife and put men at his disposal to collect flora and fauna in all directions. Aristotle studied specimens, made inferences, founded "science." He was tough-minded. None of Plato's mystical generalizations for him. He worked out the first "organon," or manual of logical thought. His fault was "excessive moderation." He corrected errors in earlier nature students, but missed their sense of life's flux and change. Where Plato gave the Catholic Church a political form which lasts today, Aristotle's "organon" lasted only through the unphilosophical pomp and glory of Rome and through...
...wonder if the men I knew who died in France would have been so comforted by the assurance that a temple erected to their memory would lure "thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness" that to find fault with the plans of suggest a different memorial would constitute a sacrilege. A Poll taken among men before going into battle might yield interesting results...