Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the custom alluded to is of immemorial antiquity, an attempt was made last week to stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...
...atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind the meaning of physical endurance. To this end he subsists solely upon water, coffee and cigarettes, and remains perched in the blue New Jersey sky with a pair of head-phones on his ears, doubtless deeming the latter torture...
...CRIMSON remains firm in its belief that the custom of "eating around" is on the decline. The proposal which it backed may not have been the correct one, it is obviously not the popular one. It was, nevertheless, an attempt and as such cannot be considered futile. Only by investigation will better conditions be reached. Failure in one experiment does not prophesy failure...
...view of the small number of students who have pledged themselves to eat in a University dining hall next year the attempt to put through the-construction of such a hall before next fall has been abandoned by the University. While it will be impossible to carry the project any farther this spring, President Lowell has announced that the offer made by the Corporation to erect a hall on Mt. Auburn Street as soon as 500 students have signified their willingness to eat there will still hold good next year...
...again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical with the American flag. Such political truckstering is hardly a pleasant foretaste for the graduating Senior...