Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...
Wolf Song (Paramount). Hill scenery is the background of this intelligent attempt to fit music into a romantic story. The foreground is Lupe Velez, who sings attractively and shrilly through her teeth. Gary Cooper is a gangling Kentucky boy who loves and kidnaps a Mexican girl and is harassed at last by the conflict between his memory of the girl's sweet singing and the fleering chantey of the mountaineers...
This fight, for equality within the church will bear some watching. The quieting influence of religion should prevent any strenuous demonstration, but mankind can rest assured that, having gotten into Congress, the weaker sex cannot be kept from the pulpit. If precedent means anything, a definite attempt to deny this right always carries with it the danger of a well wrapped brick being hurled through priceless stained glass...
...moment. It is transcended by a shrewd and faithful character study. The blundering sciolist who looks over mankind's shoulder in the game of life and seeks to direct the play of each card at last has been caught and held by the theatre's three walls. Even the attempt to make him noble has been renounced. He is revealed ridiculous and poignant...