Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member...
Yesterday afternoon a number of class team candidates practiced in the corner of Soldier's Field near the Locker Building. Lack of equipment kept the total number of candidates low, but it is hoped that there will be sufficient equipment this afternoon...
...publication of the University Register will be delayed until late in November this year, on account of the great lack of cooperation on the part of the club secretaries, according to J. C. McClone '26, Chairman of the Register Committee of the Student Council...
Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
...Burgundy encamped without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited, vocally and otherwise, to their assignments. Best of all were the chorus work?really extraordinarily fine in its ensemble singing?and the costumes of James Reynolds. There was rather a lack of laughter, but it did not seem to matter. The Vagabond King is as good a romantic operetta as one can normally expect. In fact, far better...