Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posters advertising the show Miss Swanson is said to have a voice "as lovely as herself". This applies only to the talking parts, where indeed it is good, but when she sings, the synchronization instruments fail to function properly and the reproduction is rather uncertain...
...importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily wrote: "It is such bunk as this that is making the development of common sense in this...
...snapped M. Tardieu, the Government would not "pronounce 'laicisms'"? and suddenly he demanded a vote of confidence, staked his whole political future shrewdly on a word. The shrewdness lay in that he had neatly chosen an issue on which the Government could not fail to command the Catholic vote...
...best. A variation of that idea has been arranged for Ted Lewis in the form of some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress Jazz King Lewis. He excitedly and excitingly blows his clarinet and saxophone, juggles his high hat, croons odd songs in a hoarse voice. Best song: "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues...
...list of those who will take part in the coming meeting reflects both the importance and the purposes of the Society. A round table discussion of "The Money Market in 1929", to take only one example, can hardly fail to be stimulating and instructive under the leadership of Mr. Burgess of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. And anything that such men as Dr. Vanderblue, Professor Crum, and Colonel Ayres may have to say on the general business situation may well be of national interest...