Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been attempts to reform football by college Presidents who mildly or vehemently deplored the young generation and all its works. There have been attempts to reform football by young literati among the undergraduates and minorities of alumni who doubt if the game is worth its present price. Now comes an attempt to reform football by the regulars themselves. Representatives of six colleges met in Middletown on Sunday. They were neither alumni, nor Presidents, nor editors of classical monthlies with a flair for Elizabethan verse; they were, instead, the editors of undergraduate daily newspapers and the Chairmen of undergraduate...
...know who writes your book reviews, and I have made no attempt to find out. I do not object to his slang or the slang of any of the rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...
This somewhat "explanatory" attitude on the part of the Court was viewed generally as an attempt to scotch any cry of "Martyrs!" in behalf of the accused. And it was noted as significant that all the sentences were "in the second degree" (i. e., "without hard labor...
...Lady's Virtue. Rachel Crothers is a capable workman in the theatre. No play of hers can be bad, yet none has been exceptionally good. This last attempt is probably better than most...
...Jemmett, a young Englishman known for his foppish habit of dress, his astounding height and his skill in the painting of miniatures, leaped into the seas that pounded over some rocks near Biarritz, and with Raoul Fourquet, lifeguard, lost his life in an attempt to rescue a drowning Englishwoman (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). Inspired by this exploit, one George Conlon, a native of Frostburg, Md., executed a small marble, "To the Heroes of the Sea," which was put on exhibition last month at the Biarritz Golf Club. A committee, organized by the Mayor of Biarritz, has raised funds to copy...