Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intelligent Formosans still fear that China's badly shaken Nationalist leaders may fail or collapse; they nevertheless see a chance of fairly sound government for Formosa in the months ahead...
...moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
Speaking as a soldier, Montgomery warned: "To promise to rescue the West in due course after a successful invasion from the East is quite useless. If the West is overrun again, that is ... the end of Western civilization . . . Do not let us fail to do the right things...
...going to miss one student this year," says vice-chairman Leonard C. Gordon '51. The solicitors will keep returning to student rooms every night until they get their man, Gordon said, and if they fail after six days, they'll leave a note in the mailbox...
There is also the possibility that the alleged new job program, caught under the kleig lights of publicity, will be misinterpreted and that people will fail to realize that what Harvard is planning to do now is merely what Yale and Princeton have already done...