Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent German literary movement we find a great many tendencies and a remarkable lack of unity." This was the introductory statement from which Klaus Mann developed his thesis of the youth movement of Germany, in Emerson Hall before an appreciative audience of considerable size last night...
...Governor Smith and the Catholic Church, one is equally impressed by Senator Heflin's melodramatic threats against the "villain" newspaper correspondents who reported his speeches from the press galleries. It is possible, however, that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos...
...world has laughed at the name of Beecham?first at Joseph the father, who made a fortune at pill-making, winning a baronetcy thereby, then at Thomas the son, who squandered it* in the name of music, and wheeled about to mock the entire British public for its lack of appreciation. Some three thousand wanted to laugh one night last week in Manhattan when Sir Thomas lifted his baton for his U. S. debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He had come on calmly enough, like a slick little middle-aged banker surveying his premises. Then he stepped...
...insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
...both teams skated over the complete surface of the rink, paying but little attention to the positions they were playing. Andover, especially, showed its want of practice on the runners due to the lack of sufficient cold weather...