Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widely reputed a pioneer user of news-style pictures in advertisements (Fleischmann, Goodrich), Mr. Getchell aims at a clientele supposedly unsatisfied by either Look or LIFE. Picture makes no attempt to create sensations or cover the news, goes in for illustrated expositions of topics like the life of a chorus girl, the dangers of lightning, "Strange Animal Diets." what happens to you in a Turkish bath, how Connecticut operates its premarital, Wassermann testing, the way to give a bum a new lease on life, how San Francisco cultivates potential artists, aged...
...world's neatest jobs of play construction. In The Infernal Machine Playwright Cocteau has kept Sophocles' characters in their ancient setting but has stressed the psychoanalytic implications of the story and told it in modern language. To The Play Room audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris...
...lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able to make good his effort to drive Writer Harrison from Belgrade...
...problem of dramatics at Harvard exists because of inadequate instruction in three different fields, literary, artistic, and creative, and it is clear that any attempt to solve the problem as a whole is doomed to failure. It must be attacked on each of the three separate fronts...
...Master of Dunster House introduces the number with a sufficiently magisterial, yet eminently readable, article on "Revolution in Brazil." The leading articles are terminated by the attempt of a less widely known authority from the same House to deminstrate that, behind the radical whiskers, lurks J. M. Keynes, a conservative defender of capitalism...