Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students, or a reward for high grades at college. Scholarships are intended to put into practical terms what Harvard considers the proper qualifications for admissions and Deans List; if students can support themselves they are not eligible for scholarships no matter how good their record. This is a bold attempt to eliminate the economic factor privately in higher education, and represents perhaps the most liberal scholarship philosophy of any university...
...about this business that seems fishy. The physical contact is not what it might be and points are traded back and forth too evenly. More than one jam reminded me of the jockey's query, "Where's number two? Let him through; let him through." There is also the attempt to infuse the Roller Derby with a big-time sports atmosphere (cf. announcing halftime scores of other matches, which nobody honestly cares about...
Back in Underclothes. Prices are high: businessmen keep asking high prices for their goods, in an attempt to get the capital which they cannot borrow. A plain laborer earning no marks a month spends most of his wages on food; a cheap suit will cost him two months' pay, shoes more than a week's. "Stuttering," as the Germans call installment-plan buying, is in high vogue. Crack the stutterers: "Any honest man has debts today...
Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...
...courtroom scenes are enough to make a law student turn green with nausea. At one point Mrs. Bonner, in an attempt to prove that women are equal to men in every respect, brings in a circus woman who does back flips and lifts Mr. Bonner...