Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every serious fault of recent legislation and every failure to complete and round out a satisfactory legislative program could and would have been avoided had there been dependable Republican majorities in the Congress. The one certain and assured remedy for such a condition is the election of a Congress, Republican by a goodly majority both in name and in principle...
...course both extremes are absurd. College men today are no more persons of sterling Christian character and high moral worth than they were inherently wicked, depraved, and leprous in the two years which followed the signing of the armistice. Their only fault was that they were and are young, and, being more receptive to new influences than their elders, unconsciously responded more immediately to changing conditions of time and circumstance. After the war, sensing the general relaxation, they let down, while their elders still held blindly on. Presently they felt the coming of what is hoped will...
...shall invite the representatives of the nation to express their sentiments, and if they are pronounced against the Chief of State, that will end it. The inevitable rites shall be accomplished. But if, as I still hope, they reflect and refuse to comit a fault which also is an injustice, we shall be at their disposal to give all explanations. But what matters is that order and law shall remain intact...
Divorced. Lysiane Bernhardt Verneuil (granddaughter of the late Sarah Bernhardt) and Louis Verneuil, playwright; on grounds of "mutual fault," at Paris...
...most engaging, if also his most exasperating, characteristics. But it is not quite enough to score him off on that account as a "bonehead". It is partly at least the failure of a traditional form of education to impress him with its value. It seems almost a fault in the colleges that they are so organized as to impress upon the freshman that scholastic achievement doesn't get him anywhere, and it is almost a virtue in the freshman that he so successfully acts on that verdict...