Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faints conveniently, dislikes her son's wife and is a repulsive prig. Not having seen the play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places it seems to lack a swiftness of touch usually attained on the stage, and the debonair Montgomery is a bit out of his element as a heavy. However, I can recommend "Another Language" without reservations. Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery perform ably and are assisted by an excellent group of actors in minor roles...
...commuters be allowed to eat in the House Dining Halls is an eminently sensible one; as guests they will do no more to destroy group unity than do visitors from other Houses, or the friends invited to a club. The other two innovations put forward, however, indicate both a lack of foresight and the absence of sufficient hindsight to consider the crys of previous Councils for House autonomy and House tradition. The disadvantages of introducing non-members of the Houses into the House teams and libraries are manifold: the libraries, often overcrowded now, will lose much of their value...
...beat out the veteran Wells is a moot question. Pesky has been sent back to the second-stringers in spite of a good show that he put on Friday. Fergie Locke is being tried in the blocking back position and seems to be able to deliver notwithstanding his lack of weight...
...light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done in the Lord's vineyard...
...many young men come to Cambridge to fail pitifully in that first testing year that it naturally is the constant effort of men who must guide their educational and recreational life to lay emphasis on the pitfalls ahead. They knowingly counsel that carelessness, procrastination, and lack of strength to organize the week's hours lead only to an early termination of association between the undergraduates and his chosen college...