Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft-Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners...
Some experts think that building an air-conditioned frame will be a sheer waste of effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that...
...Pleasure of Lookery. Brother Leo's essays and reminiscences are valuable in their own right as an honest, amused and only slightly crotchety effort to put the whole matter of "modern art" in a clear perspective (despite the title, there is little talk of poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true...
...Grand Hotel. Her first novel, Give Us Our Dream, is her well-intentioned but singularly sterile effort to excavate the humanity that pulsates under the drabness of Sunnyside, a railroad-side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...