Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in the eighties, unusual distractions were beginning to appear; and this solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said...
...prayers of the group, as you imply; it was because standing in prayer was the common practice of his day. He did not commune at Christ Church, Philadelphia, according to a statement of the rector, Bishop White. The possible reasons for Bishop White's statement, and its lack of evidential value as to Washington's general practice, were commented upon by Bishop Meade. There is quite as unimpeachable testimony that Washington did partake of the Communion, both before and after the period to which White referred...
...said, allegedly without much foundation, that he is a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. With equal lack of foundation Dame Rumor has several times had him engaged to Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of the famed War Prime Minister, with whom Sir Philip is still on the friendliest terms, despite the fact that he is a Conservative and Mr. George a Liberal...
...That there is a general lack of supervision over spending and borrowing, as a result of the aforementioned conditions...
...time is so admirably suited for amusements requiring a lack of thought as a work end provided one's conscience is not hard of hearing and has a weak voice. One may sleep a good part of the morning, and then having breakfasted, read a newspaper. In these two exercises no difficulty will be found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces...