Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...Ohio primary (see below) was the second defeat in a year for Charles P. Taft II, stalwart, cheerful, encyclopedic son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. As the youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week...
...week by Brewer Busch when he beheld a current announcement from Anti-Saloon headquarters that the brewers of the U. S. were going to hold a "secret meeting" in behalf of Nominee Smith next month. Brewer Busch, posted on the plans of his industry, called the announcement "an adroit attempt to confuse the voters in the coming Presidential election...
Problems. Serious-minded Commander Byrd, famed as an aviator, likes to be thought a scientist as well. Indignantly he battles the idea that his flight to Europe last year was any mere trans-Atlantic hop. Science was the lure which drew him to the attempt. And Science, pure Science, calls him to the South Pole and Antarctica. These are the scientific mysteries Explorer Byrd hopes to bring to light...
...horror that it had turned green, the color of grass. She rushed back to the coiffeur, in tears begged him to do something for her. He poured more chemicals into more rinse waters, now her hair was blue. Hour after hour he rinsed and struggled; after each attempt the head of hair emerged a new tint. Finally, an hour before the hour of the ball, they gave it up. Madame Charlotte's hair was a pale violet. There was nothing else to do. At first she thought of staying home. But her love of gayety got the better...