Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education should afford. When a lecturer months his lines, when he forgets his part and fills up the gap with decadent verbiage, he is "strutting his hour" rather ill. And the man in the front of the orchestra who coughs and clacks at the wrong time is equally at fault. The three a week is a hard life for all concerned. Yet improvement is not impossible...
Hollis--"The Poor Nut", with Elliott Nugent, at 8.20: We've seen a great many relay races and a great many comedies, and we haven't a single fault to find with "The Poor...
...Wiggin is a financial giant; his counsel is eagerly sought. He is director and officer in about 30 financial, railroad and industrial organizations, member of a score of clubs, trustee of many philanthropic activities. All through he has kept his reputation of being "tremendously loyal. . . . generous to a fault ... of unlimited courage," of being a hard worker and player, "big, jovial, wholesome." Called by his first name more than any other Wall Street potentate, he is occasionally spoken of as "the man of a million friends...
...still showing antagonism to a man of German birth, as though that is the main fault in his writings. You show plainly your narrowed, bigoted, insulting mind, when you write a review such as you did in TIME. What difference does it make whether his parents were German or Yiddish or English or anything. I am not a German, but an American and I still will give due credit to an enemy, if he deserves...
...contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...