Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eagerly she continued: "The lack of actors who can play parts of gentlemen has crippled scores of plays. It is a deplorable fact that managers frequently have to send to England for men who can merely wear clothes and appear like gentlemen. Theatres are simply falling over themselves to get contracts for the two or three men in New York who can take these parts, and yet college men totally overlook the stage as a road to wealth and fame. I imagine they do so because it 'isn't done', but it is done in England and there...
...Nebraska, Robert E. Hines, youngest member of the State Legislature, proposed a bill to promote prolificacy among the upper classes: annulment of all marriages after three years if no offspring has been born, cases of impotency excepted. The Chicago Tribune commented, "The only thing we lack here in America is a law making the immortality of the soul compulsory...
...rebuttal, Mr. Brown made a statement complaining of Mr. Niedringhaus' refusal to answer the committee's private letter, declaring his [Mr. Brown's] lack of willingness to injure the company's reputation, as alleged, and stating that the committee's only aim is the success of the company. It is thought in financial circles that a fight for the stock control of National Enameling...
Deploring the lack of knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages at Harvard, Professor W. R. Halliday, of the University of Liverpool, who is lecturing on Greek and Roman history during the second half-year, in the absence of Professor W. S. Ferguson in Europe, said, "Probably because both Latin and Greek are rather difficult to master, students at Harvard, as well as in Liverpool, tend to avoid these studies. I find that American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such...
Considerably hampered by lack of practice during the last week, the Yale hockey squad will come to Boston for the game with the Harvard sextet tomorrow night with the determination to avenge the 3 to 2 defeat inflicted in a thrilling overtime battle at the Arena two weeks...