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Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD MEN AND TRUE | 12/18/1926 | See Source »

...last earthly vision of the horizon that had always beckoned to him. Dead, he enters who can say what felicity? The production is beautiful. After doing the Babbitts for almost a year, Robert Keith covers himself with glory as the dreamer of the hill. Aline MacMahon, woodenly hopeless, is the woman who saved neither others nor herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...inevitable that an old friend like Sally Fairfax should try to cheer him and persuade him that he was not the hopeless failure that he must have begun to think himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Washington | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...have not. . . . The situation is hopeless," said Juror No. 1, the foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Twelve Jurors | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Crimson Cause Not Hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST GAME SHOWS MANY WEAKNESSES | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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