Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wasn't the Dean's fault, that much was certain. A tourist told the sexton and the sexton told the Dean and the Dean told the Chapter; somebody even told the King. Everybody shook their heads and said it could not be so, but when they went to look, there was the fact staring them in the face. The London Times got hold of the story, started a restoration fund that netted ?33,000 in three days. In Park Lane, in Mile End Road, in Billingsgate, in the counties, what a buzz. "Falling down . . . ," people said amazed. "Falling...
...hockey, and he has an exceptionally hard shot. An injury received early in the Yale game, when he slid head first into the rink boards, necessitated his removal, and with him went the last vestige of the Princeton team play. This weakness in team play was the most apparent fault of the Nassau sextet...
Miss Ferguson seems least at fault. A trifle less lissome, perhaps, than in her earlier days, she is still the corporeal substance of a vision; still plays with the grace and subtlety that made her famous. Mr. Molnar wrote an intricately interesting study of a woman wild to jump the hedge of life's convention. He failed to set his study in a sufficiently decisive dramatic narrative. The woman's character is there in all its broad sweep and tiny detail. Who cares? The tale is tiresome. The Frohman production was surprisingly uneven for such an astute organization...
...seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...
According to Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department, the University seismograph showed that the shock occurred at 8.07 o'clock yesterday and lasted for 45 seconds. He believes that yesterday's quake was due to a shifting, either vertically or horizontally, of the great Fundian fault in the earth's crust which is submerged under the Bay of Fundy. He bases his opinions on the fact that the two waves of the shock came in quick succession. A quake always divides into two waves which separate as the earthquake travels. Since the two shocks were simultaneous, the origin...