Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept weeping over her work for two weeks. Finally Mrs. Caruso said: "I decided to write the book myself. While I wrote I could smell the verbena just as though he were here. . . . Those failures [her two marriages since Caruso's death] were no one's fault. . . . Death had not ended my marriage to Enrico...
...plain citizen is either baffled or bored by the world security conference at San Francisco, it won't be radio's fault...
...Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often...
...implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once a week is enough...
...Most prone to believe rumors were mechanics, clerks, salesmen, housewives, oldsters, fault finders, people who objected to rationing, anti-New Dealers. People who had relatives or close friends in combat overseas took less stock in rumors than those making smaller sacrifices...