Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College men are certainly needed in all fields of industry. Yet the country, for the time being, has more college men than can be easily adjusted to the exact needs of themselves or the outside world. Therefore each college must, in every way possible, attempt to place its graduates in positions at once congenial to their progress and to that of the industrial world...
...Modern day dramas," continued Miss Forrest, "are of the very poorest type. Their plots possess nothing but the same old sentimental appeal to the audience. The public is desirous of something now, something startling. That is why it patronizes the musical comedy, in a vain attempt to unearth something spectacular. The public will never be satisfied. It will turn next to the serious drama; then, we will have another complete reversion to the musical revue. I predict, however, that in five years, Ziegfeld's Follies will be a thing of the past...
...must give up any thought of improving his financial condition. Any thing less is not doing his whole duty to government. It is, of course, possible for a man to be active in private professional affairs and also active publicly, but such a man ought not attempt to hold public office for long periods...
...Bells. In this season of recurrent revivals, almost any student of the older theatre could have foretold that this veteran success of Henry Irving's would be dragged out and done again. This same student might also have foretold the futility of the attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well...
...only does Metro-Goldwyn waste Jack Pickford on an attempt to do him justice but the Harvard Dramatic Club forgets the plays of Prague and Harbin and points cast to do its own Brattleian homage to this Great God Brown. Surely the indignation or scorn of honest laughter of the Jones, the Cabots and the Smiths is more than just justified...