Word: endeavored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Liberia. My mission in this, my first visit to America, is to endeavor to cement the friendship between the two countries...
...this endeavor gathered formerly on that section of the melodramatic horizon managed by Rex Beach. He wrote of the Klondike and dance-hall nights; of the pure girl and the older blonde who loved the same man; of murmuring wastes of pine and snow. His men are all pure in their later incarnation; none of the boys would think of swearing at Rouletta or feeding her whisky...
...Christian Endeavor girl wear rolled stockings and use a lipstick...
Five thousand Endeavor delegates took up the matter of amusement-the old query whether a dancing foot and praying knee could be joined together. There was no final pronouncement on dancing except that no dance may be given under...
Christian Endeavor auspices. Then, before the 5,000 was set up a large blackboard, on which amusements were set down under three headings after long discussion...