Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already Moose Jaw's ambitious. and wealthy young M.P., Ross Thatcher, was capitalizing noisily on the manifest violation of civil rights. He had protested to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the attempt to "starve the Japs out of the camp," and had followed with a ringing speech: "Let these Canadians be treated as Canadians by Canadians. Let the Government have the courage to admit a wrong and right...
Backer Field, a Harvardman, Navy veteran and father of two, was divorced last month. "He is interested," said Editor Mullen, "in doing something constructive about family life." Speaking for himself, Field said: "I'm interested in American Family primarily as an experiment. It's an attempt to get away from newsstand sales. Ultimately I hope to get Pocket Books [another Field enterprise] into grocery stores." Meanwhile he was keeping his job as an editorial writer on the Chicago...
Though enough brutality is shown on both sides, war appears as a zestful game, in which the bravest gets the girl as well as all other earthly honors. But fortunately, there is no attempt at sophistication, and if one allows for the propaganda and the insensivity, the film may come as a breath of fresh air after the emptiness (and often equally insidious propaganda) of Hollywood. The strange and fearsome animal heraldry of the Germans produces something quite different from another patriotic, medieval picture, "Henry V." "Nevsky" never achieves the effect of magnificence of the English movie, and its battle...
...previously exonerated Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished its last remaining highway camp. ¶ In North Carolina, seven white men exonerated by a grand jury last Aug. 5 for an attempt to lynch Godwin ("Buddy") Bush, even though one of the men had confessed, were rearrested. Under an obscure, 54-year-old statute, North Carolina's Governor R. Gregg Cherry is empowered to present a lynch case to a grand jury four times...
...attempt to convey the idea that nuns are human beings is doubtless laudable and sincerely undertaken. But considering the fact that Writer-Directors...