Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frantic effort to emulate the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, which are a sell-out every year, the United States Lawn Tennis Association decided this year to try something new. This was to hold the Men's Singles Championship and the Women's Singles Championship, which have hitherto been held at Forest Hills one after the other, at the same time...
Considered as a reproduction of a celebrated novel, Anna Karenina is intelligent, reasonably faithful and less likely to arouse squeals of affected agony from literary hair-splitters than any other recent effort of its kind. Considered on its own merits as a picture, it is the liveliest in which Greta Garbo has appeared since Mata Hari and should on this account delight millions of cinemaddicts who have never of Tolstoy and could not spell out his stories if they had. Good shot: Vronsky's first glimpse of Anna, through steam blowing across her face from the engine of the train...
...profits out of war. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery obligingly arranged an interview at the Presidential Palace. As everyone expected, President Mendieta politely pointed out that nothing could be done until his provisional Government was replaced by an elected one. And after the interview Senator Nye made an awkward effort to appease Cuban feeling, declaring: "We made no demands for payment nor was there any peremptory tone in our conference with Mendieta. . . . Cuba is not the only nation that needs to be spanked for not meeting its foreign obligations...
...attention wander, he would be instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls and over an information desk...
...brother Willard were expelled from school. The next year found young Wright an art student in Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition in Munich. Artist Wright is still a Synchromist but does not talk about it much. At present he is more interested...