Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article on page 20 deals with the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg, Germany, in connection with the application of the German National Railway Company for an increase of rates. . . . Your article implies that the Nuremberg accident was due to poor condition of the railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent pre-war conditions in 1913. With pride...
Warrior of Wit. Too many generals lack wit. Indeed the quality is thought fatal in a military man, or policeman. But General Obregon's buoyant, spontaneous wit bubbled at convivial moments like champagne-to which he was not addicted, being an advocate of temperance, not prohibition...
...Republicans have Onward Christian Soldiers for their campaign song, as Mr. Fort says [TIME, July 9], I shall lose my last vestige of hesitancy and vote against Herbert Hoover the Quaker and for Governor Smith the Roman Catholic. Perhaps in the Quaker Church, with its lack of ritual, there is inculcated a disdain for the ritual of others. Brought up in the worship of silence, Mr. Hoover will not mind making a fine old hymn of our fathers into a catch-tune of the hustings. I have been a Republican, if that is what it is to vote for Taft...
Prolific author of critical essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...
...Regarding the Nationalists [see Strongest Man], we are ready to treat with them on a basis of equality. In fact, we are already conducting negotiations, but they are at a standstill for the present, due to the lack of unity within the national Government. If they seek to exclude us and make peace on their own terms naturally we will not have anything to do with them...