Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fault can be found with this play, it is that it is considerably too long and just a touch preachy in some of the soliloquies: both faults which can be remedied by pruning...
...been forced to find other channels of expression--to wit: a printed broadside about non-House men. The very existence of this brochure is in itself a criticism of the Council, an indication that it does not completely fulfill its supposed function. Yet this apparent failure is more the fault of the Constitution which governs the Council than of the individuals who are its members...
...University has specifically recognized the importance of dinner table contacts by such innovations as the inter-House system and the extension of Freshman dining privileges. Yet this complicated culinary network has been built up without regard for some 400 men who, through less fault of their own than of the University, are deprived of its advantages...
...mail averages 4,000 letters a week, more than Clark Gable's or Shirley Temple's. In exhibitor polls of western stars he stands at the top. Autry's pay, $12,500 per picture, is not what it might be, but this is not his fault. He had to fight to get it raised from $5,000 per picture last year. Other companies would gladly pay him much more but Republic, which gave him his first chance and put him on the map, has him under unbreakable contract...
...political debate of 1938, like the debates of 1934 and 1936, has consisted 90% of talking at cross purposes: the Ins defying anyone to find fault with the New Deal's broad objective, to improve the lot of mankind. The Outs denouncing the New Deal's acts for making the lot of mankind harder...