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Word: faults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curt, jerky way you have of telling things. But you do tell the latest news, and one simply must keep up. Some of the letters you receive are terrible and you are good sports to print them so that all may see. As a rule, I find very little fault with you, but please don't call a child "it." I am a mother and know that that hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...invited an imposing list of notables to witness its magnificence. In the lower boxes were Ethel Barrymore, Walter Hampden, Mrs. Samuel Insull (now playing Lady Teazle elsewhere), Laurette Taylor. All this was rather gorgeous but detracted somewhat from the events on the stage. The events were somewhat at fault themselves and the evening was not conspicuously satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good deal of attention from passing children, which was disagreeable to him. One morning last week he got up too late to eat breakfast. As the hours passed he noticed that the air was getting curiously dark. A little drum pounded in the back of his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...either case, the Traffic Department is at fault. It would be very easy to put at least a Flashing Beacon at this corner such as they have at other corners that have merited the attention of the Department perhaps less than this one. Something could be done about this matter very cheaply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shortcomings of the Constabulary | 12/18/1925 | See Source »

...stand of the Harvard CRIMSON, the Yale News has indorsed the general stand of the CRIMSON, the Princetonian assents to the fact that football bears too much importance in ratio of the importance given the curriculum, the Brown Daily Herald has said, "until some undesired evils, not the fault of the game itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote approved a radical readjustment of the present schedule system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only a Theory? | 12/11/1925 | See Source »

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