Word: fault
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...last two plays on two long forward passes. The Generals outrushed the Orange and Black by 13 first downs to 10, and showed the coaches that their team needed considerable work to tune it up for the later encounters. Loose handling of the ball was a bad fault evident in the Princeton backfield...
Fanny. The many virtues of Fannie Brice, comedienne, are lost to Fannie Brice, emotional actress. Perhaps it is the fault of the play, a concoction of sugar and tears drained by three of its characters, an old philanthropist, a grateful beneficiary, a swindling villian. Miss Brice looks much, much better in revue skits, even if David Belasco did stage this play...
...that the work of the pioneers in education has been in any sense a tremendous failure. They gave to those who were to follow them the only medium through which education of any kind can thrive freedom. What has been done through that medium since their time is the fault or virtue of their successors. At all events they were the best of that type called American. Nor can they be forgotten...
...affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence a myth. Togas avasi, of the dictator has good publicity...
...from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...