Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...
...Lady at Large," by Philip Goodman, presents the sorry spectacle of capable actors and actresses struggling with hopeless material They grin conscientiously over thir lines, but can't help revealing slightly their lack of enthusiasm for the insipid chatter they are required to recite. The only genuine laugh in last night's performance was provoked by the hotelkeeper's quite accidentally tearing his pants. And this device will probably be abandoned...
Consequently, when an advisee refuses to see his adviser or to respond intelligently to lectures, he is spiting only himself; when a man graduates without once meeting a professor he admires or shaking hands with President Conant, it is his fault--to be blamed upon his lack of initiative. Going halfway with teacher, adviser, and dean is the obligation of each Freshman. Likewise, it is his duty to be useful in college, by contributing somehow to its life; particularly does it fall upon him to develop a practical social philosophy which will anchor his outlook on the modern world...
...State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter to the Public . . . INVESTIGATE -BEFORE YOU INVEST...
Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...