Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Awful Truth" depicts Irene Dunne's futile attempt to divorce Cary Grant and win the custody of "Mr. Smith," a canine known as "Skippy" in private life. The interlocutory decree is granted, and "Mr. Smith" is treated with all the consideration recently shown Miss Gloria Vanderbilt, but Cupid has ninety days to make a comeback. These are packed into sixty minutes of hilarious entertainment, thanks chiefly to the dialogue and the capable acting of Miss Dunne and her four-legged friend. "Skippy," who appears more at home before the camera than when he played in "The Thin...
...first attempt to heal the Great Schism had been a dismal failure. But with the rank & file on both sides thoroughly fed up with what is essentially a struggle between ambitious leaders for personal power, it was by no means certain that this attempt would be the last...
...China's late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, nephew by marriage to the Man & Wife of the Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME...
...Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books...
...have no interest in trust-busting for the sheer joy of it," remarked Robert Jackson, Assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of trustbusting, in a published interview last week. One thing was sure: Lawyer Jackson last week had something less than sheer joy in his latest attempt at trustbusting. For nine months early this year Lawyer Jackson's department investigated the operations of the four big auto-financing companies owned by or connected with automobile manufacturers. Last September it began presenting its evidence to a special Federal grand jury in Milwaukee. Last week, just when it seemed certain...