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Word: faults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Only a Washerwoman | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mellon | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Menace | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: The Sold South | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curtis Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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