Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government [Haitian] fails, it is a blow to all the Negroes of the world." Said one F. E. Croly, U. S. student: "The fault is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that he is part of the common herd. The leadership of the Negro race is left too largely to ministers and bootleggers." Newspapers. Said the Amsterdam News: "The proceedings of the Pan-African Congress should be closely followed by all students of racial...
...ship's run, watched people drink champagne, radioed a wet friend (onetime Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey) to "have another." The day of the deck sports he gave out prizes, exacting a kiss from the first, a bunchy little girl of ten. It was not his fault that the next nine prize-winners were pretty young women. Chortling, he kissed them...
...talked to the people from the old country, and in every single case the people were happy. There may, of course, be some grousers but they kept away and I am convinced that if a man cannot make good it is, in 95% of the cases, his own fault...
...President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired Coolidge's Democracy (not political) and think he has made a wonderful President. Honest in everything. Self-seeking in nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people gunning for Coolidge when "Canivora" like big Bill Thompson are running at large. One a builder and a conservator, the other an obstructionist and destructionist...
...Should the Disarmament Conference have unhappy results, I assure you it will not be the fault of the British delegates...