Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fault of the Pratts...
...also accorded more attention than the affairs of the country. Many newspapers give more space by far to comic pictures that introduce the same characters in unending series than they give to all the doings of all governments, foreign and domestic. This is not remarked by way of finding fault with the newspapers. It is intended rather to help the reader understand how it happens that public opinion, in relation to the affairs of Congress, drifts so easily from indifference and neglect to impatience and disparagement...
...machinery for taking attendance is not at fault. The easy-going monitor and the student who takes advantage of his friendship are simply an unavoidable outgrowth of the whole system. Their attitude cannot be changed by any external means. But when the question of voluntary attendance comes up for consideration, the shortcomings of the monitorial system are likely to be an argument in its favor...
...thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than it organized a 245-mile endurance motorcycle race, open to all. The largest publishing concern...
...lovely lingerie, and Mark Sennet enthusiasts fall asleep rather than see a hoop-skirt. Theatre-owners, realizing that it is all a matter of taste, and that the fewer discontented patrons, the better the business, advertise their programs by flaring posters. Hence, it is really one's own fault if he sees a moving picture that doesn't appeal to him. Furthermore, a man who has chosen the wrong theatre is there for only one evening; and, if he so desires, he can leave without hindrance...