Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rejoined Mrs. Strom, irate: "I run no laundry. I hire no help. I am only a washerwoman. No fault-finding Carrolls can stop me from taking in wash and hanging it out in the yard...
...lump would boost the French budget by 20%. Mr. Mellon replied to M. Poincaré that he could not, so near the end of his term, undertake the responsibility of waiving the $400,000,000 collection, which had come due through no fault of the U. S. but through France's failure to ratify the refunding. Mr. Mellon continued to "rest...
...been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I [Lenin] am not sure that he always knows how to use that power. . . . "Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin-more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive...
...Peterson scandal-he was supposed to have paid his political overlord some $2,000-soon evaporated. Not to malign a dead man, it seemed sufficient to say that Postmaster Peterson's bankruptcy was his own fault and not political. But there were other cases...
When the dance?a "Kaw Special"? was over, there were more speeches. Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Colvin, sister of "Cousin Charley," stammered: "It isn't my fault, but I want you to know that I?that we? are all very proud of Charley...