Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because all good parents are jealous of the health of their young, a house guest in a married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...lose no word of protest ever came from the players themselves. If defeat crowned their efforts in place of victory, it was their fault and the fault of Harvard. They knew better than the outside world the man for whom they were staking Harvard's football reputation. Such confidence is the greatest tribute that a coach can receive. It is of the stuff which raises lost hopes and sends a team against Yale which will not be beaten...
...Your statement is an admission of your fault," snapped General Howze. He granted a delay saying...
Bobbed Hair was written by "20 famous novelists," each doing one installment. As might be expected, it turned out to be an incoherent hurrah about the modern girl, but incoherence is so often a feature of motion picture plots that the fault is not devastatingly apparent...
Athletes at their training tables began to find fault with things; the little grooves deepened between nostril and upper lip; coaches were conciliatory, recognizing in such indications a touch of overtraining. And on Saturday the melodramatics of football were continued...