Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweet, if not a naive old man, and many feel sure that he will be the Democratic nominee. It is suggested that at his age even the possibility that he might die in office, if elected, is an added attraction to him as a candidate, just as his lack of enemies is his present asset...
...Senate there was not quite the same amount of hurry. The disposition of the Senators would not permit it. Most of them preferred to express themselves freely and fully, even if some legislation might fail for lack of time to consider...
...reports were issued concerning the lack of respect paid the royal party by an infuriated hartebeest.* One report said that the party had stalked and severely wounded a bull hartebeest and on approaching the animal it suddenly got up and charged them, but was shot before it reached the party. The other report said that the animal succeeded in wounding the Earl, that the Princess was forced to hide behind a sapling from where she managed (at close quarters) to shoot the hartebeest dead...
Ulrika Woytich, a young woman with an irresistible personality, a consuming ambition and a total lack of scruples, comes up to Vienna "on the make." It is her intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair...
...Hawaiian Government, he studied the folk tales of the island and reproduced them in his fascinating prose. I believe that Colum's residence in America and his fondness for us, has been a precious addition, for more than any other quality, it seems to me, our writers lack the sense of mystic fantasy, of homely beauty, of child-like imagery that this Peter Pan-like Irishman...