Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike, her flight would lack publicity. Thus prevented from an ultimate proof of his heroism, Caspar descends to the street level, takes a ride on a ferryboat with his gypsy sweetheart, Paras Veka...
African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
Mansion Passion. Though Albania may lack roads, she should never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King...
...These foreign publications, frivolous and obscene, are efficient agents of immorality and lack all the literary and artistic value which is supposed to justify their enjoyment of postal privileges...
...sell at 19½?, then would come a period of stagnation, then trading would reopen at 16½?. there would be another stagnant period, then another reopening at 15½?. It was like a Wheat Market which opened only one day a week, and a falling market in which lack of continuous trading made it difficult to get out from under on future contracts that would result in a loss...