Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours by reason of its lack of definiteness and detail and its early administration under leadership the character and traditions of which reached backward through centuries of struggle for constitutional liberty in England. Attention is strikingly directed to the modification of the original legislative, executive and judicial departments by the creation of great administrative departments combining...
There is just one real lack, to supply which I have to go to the Literary Digest or literary reviews-current poetry. If a column could be given each week to the best of the current poetry, I should rate TIME...
Turkish Atrocities of the perennially familiar type were reported by Laidoner, whose lack of sentimentality or easily shocked squeamishness is ably attested by the fact that he once ordered 130 Esthonian Communists shot in a batch because they were about to start a revolution...
...painter. He expressed the idea to some immigrant friends on the East Side, who thought he meant that he wanted to be a house painter. He was referred to a job and when he got there he discovered that it was a job painting a tenement house. Handicapped by lack of funds and little knowledge of English, he was compelled to do this sort of work until he saved money enough to go into business for himself. This eventually led him into the real estate business. This "Polish Jew" is now, at the age of 44, the most romantic...
...Cesar Borgin is thought a villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black...