Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared on the other hand, that the Abbé had not only joined the cult and participated in its rites of flagellation, but had aspired to supersede Mme. Mesmin, and had accordingly instigated a young girl to murder her on Christmas night. The girl failed in this alleged attempt, but early in the week Mme. Mesmin's loyal adherents set out for Bombon, "to discipline the Abbé des Noyers...
Princes and statesmen are wont to attempt to immortalize themselves by founding societies and orders into which they can lure men of imperishable fame in other walks of life. The great Cardinal Richelieu, for example, practically forced Corneille and the famed clique of notables who frequented informally the house of Valentin Courart to allow themselves to be "incorporated" into L'Académie française, for the greater glory of "Cardinal, King, and Country." Last week Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, rapped out a few terse commands to his Cabinet, and lo, L'Accademia Italiana sprang into being...
...Kellogg Co. of Great Britain. And he has an estate, out in California, near Pomona, where among other activities he breeds Arabian horses. Last week he was reported about to send an expedition to Arabia to bring back a herd of 9 to 15 horses, which he will attempt to reproduce in native strains. Through the administration of another Kellogg, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, he was arranging the safe-conduct of his party...
Worcester made a strong attempt to overcome this lead in the last stanza, but could only pick up two points before the game ended...
...pronounce at this time any final judgment on the best books of the past year is impossible, and to attempt it is ridiculous. But it is possible and perhaps not altogether useless to consider briefly those books which now seem interesting, worth reading or examining. I don't pretend to have read all the books I shall mention, and whatever hasty opinions of them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory...