Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cooch dance with her eyes crossed. It brought her back to New York and a two-year job in the Broadway company of the same show. In 1925 a Mrs. Reagon, vaudeville booking agent, offered Josephine $250 a week to go to Paris. With the exception of a disastrous attempt to reinvade Broadway in 1936, Josephine Baker has remained in Europe ever since. Parisians loved her shrill, piping soprano, her lacquered hair and extravagant clothes, her habit of dancing nude but for a girdle of artificial bananas. She paraded the streets of Budapest with two swans on a leash, kept...
...Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...
...rode around in a bright yellow motorcar and bright yellow railroad train, and so great became his influence that the Nationalist Government thought it worthwhile to pay him $480,000 a year, give him the title of "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture," in an attempt to save Manchuria and North China from Japanese influence...
...attempt has been made to commercialize the suit or keep its details secret, and the Navy has been supplied with all essential information. One purpose to which Messrs. Nohl & Craig hope to put it is the salvaging of valuable articles from the Lusitania. Two years ago, the Orphir, a privately financed salvage ship, located a large hulk off tne Irish coast by means of an echo-sounder, and this was assumed to be the Lusitania when a diver found two-inch rivets, such as used in constructing the Lusitania. Bad weather and other difficulties drove the searchers off before there...
...YOUNG MEN ARE COMING!-M. P. Shiel- Vanguard ($2.50). High-pressure fantasy about an English scientist who is taken for a ride through space by some unpuritanical interplanetary visitors, recovers his youth, gets mixed up in an attempt to establish a fascist government in Great Britain-an odd, involved book, written in an exclamatory prose, that is a little like H. G. Wells's political-scientific satires, a little like James Branch Cabell's arch allegories...