Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced with the statement that perhaps those in the show business should attempt to elevate the tastes of their audiences rather than cater to them, she replied, "You and I know better...
...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
...Marcel Proust, shows it in this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...
...Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical idiom. But it is not funny, either in itself, or in the manner...
Forty-one players saw service in Saturday's game. No injuries were incurred and Coach Horween plans three hard scrimmages this week in an attempt to from out the flaws brought to light against Bates...