Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
There are a number of openings for students at the Employment Office which are not being filled because of lack of applicants, according to an announcement made by W. W. Daly '14, secretary for student employment...
...desire for some sort of international society manifested several years ago, there was founded a Cosmopolitan Club. This organization met in the phillips Brooks House at various times for the purposes of discussion upon subjects of international interest. Another organization, the International Club, died early in its infancy for lack of sufficient interest...
...exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference to music can excuse a lack of familiarity on the part of Harvard...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...