Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy See, and retains in his Cabinet as Minister of Colonies famed Luigi Federzoni, "the Vatican's soft speaker" (TIME, July 12, 1926). Furthermore, Il Papa has evinced a consistent readiness to overlook the youthful blasphemies of Il Duce and always sends a telegram of congratulation whenever an attempt to assassinate the Dictator fails (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925; April 19 and Sept. 20, 1926). Always, however, the essential conflict remains...
Worth. Traditionally important is the House of Worth. Founder Charles Frederick Worth came to Paris from London in the middle of the last century, found himself the man of the hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none...
Alarums. His Most Catholic Majesty was of course urbanely aware that there had been the annual attempt at revolution during his annual holiday, and that the normal alarums had not quite died down. Specifically, the Secret Police were making a great many arrests in Spain, last week, and the Cabinet issued at Madrid a proclamation...
...Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...