Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition film matter was settled satisfactorily when the promoters of the film admitted their fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well...
...sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well...
Besides this timely gesture with the bat, Dobens held the Harvard hitters in the hollow of his hand throughout the game. He allowed only four hits and struck out eight men. The potency of his spell is seen in the fact that although he committed every fault in the pitching calendar, the score was no larger. Three passes, three hit basemen, a balk and a wild pitch could not dim the glory of his hurling performance...
...York, is not quite the same because it was unusual enough to arouse public interest. Women have been singularly unfortunate in their political adventures of late years, and no one forgets the debacle of "Ma" Ferguson in Tex, but when prominent Republican leaders admitted that her only fault was in not covering her tracks well enough there would seem to be ample reason for sympathy...