Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legions was, therefore, as strange as it was surprising.† King Friedrich Augustus ascended the Saxon throne in 1904 on the death of his father, King George. He is possessed of an anemic personality and a presence far from inspiring, which accounts in no small degree for the alleged lack of Monarchist sentiment in Saxony. It is said that on one occasion, when he was standing in uniform upon a station platform, a lady asked him to move her trunk. He replied suavely: "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like...
...Mozart, an Austrian (and in Austria there is no lack of temperament) complained that men play with 'less expression' than women. Here in England, where our performances certainly do not err on the side of unbridled passion, it seems what has been called 'a silly pity' to exclude the more emotional half of creation...
...abstention of the Socialist Deputies from the Chamber proceedings merely aggravated a state of enmity between them and the Fascisti; and, with lack of constraint on both sides, it is nothing short of a wonder that more blood has not flowed sideways through perforated veins...
...third will deal with the central problem of both Europe and the Mediterranean-which is Italy, with her growing population, the lack of raw materials and her want of colonies. The fourth will discuss the imperial problems of both France and Great Britain in the Mediterranean...
...several reasons the radio industry has of late been depressed. The business is seasonal to a great extent, owing to lack of interest in holding front-parlor concerts during summer, when other attractions intervene. Sales of equipment have regularly slumped over the summer and recovered in the winter...