Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid to hurt the ex-Kaiser's feelings? No other reason available for your suppression of the news re his attempt to trick the Germans out of 300 million marks per year...
...Dominion status" in the British Commonwealth, and the names of its institutions are unquestionably designed to sound as soothingly free as possible. Strictly speaking its "President" is virtually the "premier" of the resident British Governor General. Similarly, the "Oath of Fealty" is an attempt to make palatable on Irish tongues the traditional oath of allegiance...
...Fascist Government thus guarded the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, Lord Ashbourne, because she is known to have been insane since childhood and it was feared that she might attempt suicide, as she did last year in a moment of religious excitement...
Mountain climbers were downcast last week. From Calcutta came a wireless saying that Brigadier General C. G. Bruce, commander of the 1924 attempt and failure to reach the highest spot on earth, Mt. Everest's peak,? had learned that the Tibetan authorities** had "definitely decided to prohibit any further expeditions...
...behalf of the Irish Free State I have the honor to congratulate your Excellency and the Italian people on the providential escape of your Excellency from the odious attempt on your person...