Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore, the Piece seemed unreal and consequently unsatisfactory, the fault lies with those old masters, Racine and Corneille, who so effectively bound the drama of their native land to the chariot-wheels of Convention. Indeed, most of the contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged...
...just the kind of data that has been furnished by the wholesale grocers that is fundamentally necessary for the proper sort of instruction in these new business courses. Business men sometimes are disposed to criticise our educational institutions as being impractical. In so far as that is true, the fault is fully as much with the business men as with the institutions. Unless the business men are willing to open up and furnish the real facts regarding their businesses, without of course having their used in any way to reveal the identity of the individual concerns, they cannot fairly expect...
...balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted to his day and generation. He is no less to be respected...
...second University baseball team journeys to Lowell this afternoon to play its third game of the season against Lowell Textile School. The Scrubs, judging by their past performances, should make a good showing. Their worst fault is wild throwing, but against this on the credit side, they can put hard hitting, wide-awake work on the bases, and, perhaps most important of all, the knowledge of when and how to rally...
...producer, Mr. J. Jack Caddigan, highest credit is due. To be sure, there seems at times a lack of humor in the production, and the few lapses into burlesque are all too welcome, but the acting, dancing, costumes and tunes more than make up for this fault, if such...