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Word: atempted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Fast. As many critics commented, the title of this opus is apt. If Southern dialect were the only requisite of great drama, Not So Fast would be another Hamlet?but that is the most that can be said in its favor. The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune. Of course, he befools them instead. Allegorical triumph of virtue. Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...only for disease and weariness that new remedies are being found. Science has discovered a new drug which it believes will raise the dead. Adrenalin, as the drug is called, was given as a heart stimulant in a vain atempt to save the life of President McKinley; and recently injected directly into a heart which had stopped, it restored the customary beating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEEPING UP WITH METHUSELAH | 5/3/1923 | See Source »

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