Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition comes at a time when the President is undoubtedly considering very seriously the lifting of the embargo. Following so closely upon ex-Secretary Stimson's letter, the latest Gallup Poll, and the flood of telegrams which the fall of Barcelona evoked, this petition from his own University cannot fail to make an impression upon Mr. Roosevelt...
Lillie did not fail him. Whether bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...Harvard in need of it. It is conceivable that, attacked by a hostile legislature or beleagured by a hostile press, the University may have to appeal someday to the good sense of the public. Radio advertising will be the proper medium, and directed by professionals it will not fail to have a profound effect. Until that day comes, amateur publicists should refrain from further imposing Harvard's well-known superiority on an already resentful public...
...still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
...intelligent wife and reader, Mildred Walker noticed that most novels about doctors were concerned with triumphs in emergencies; that in real life most doctors had plenty of long-drawn-out failures. In this novel, which she rewrote three times, she makes Dr. Norton fail in two pinches which squeeze him as well as his patients-he cannot cure his wife of multiple sclerosis, his sister-in-law of loving...