Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality...
...Craig's progress after he left the Academy should give hope to West Point's dullards. He saw active service in Cuba, in the Boxer Rebellion, in the Philippine Pacification. Son of a cavalryman, with a boyhood spent on the Western Plains, he made up for a lack of scholarship with plenty of resource, winning thanks from the entire Chinese population of San Francisco for stowing away and keeping straight a squalling horde of Chinese babies after the 1906 earthquake. During the War he was a corps chief-of-staff in France, later commanded all U. S. troops...
...such lack of decision and a thousand other bits of Chinese guile there has been enough to keep Japan preoccupied all summer, especially since a crisis was germinating simultaneously in the Japanese fighting service's own high command at Tokyo. This crisis crystallized in the assassination of one of mild Japanese War Minister Senjuro Hayashi's senior general staff officers (TIME, Aug. 26) and the emergence of new and more militant War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Last week the Tokyo sabre-rattlers were ready to give China what it takes to make an obstreperous wife or nation behave...
...Lack of information, rumors in the bazaars, ineptitude, bribery; ram, lamb, sheep, mutton or goat twice a day; Somerset Maugham's rains, almost freezing temperature; fleas, lice, dirt; panhandling natives, lepers; a disquieting quietude; camels with halitosis, refractory mules, screaming hyenas, geese which hiss and nip at one's legs, then chortle...
...embarrassed by his father's fame. Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...