Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depths of this young man's immortal soul and determine whether or no he was fit to serve their God as a toiler in His vineyard. An hour passed as they plied their searching questions-on the perilous issues between Fundamentalism and Modernism; on social service work, missionary endeavor, charity...
...enjoyed TIME, June 28, much more if there had been a different picture on the front cover, happen to be one of the millions who had to use "bullets" instead of "ballots" to put "Wilhelm Der Zweite" where he belongs. I was glad to use bullets, in 1918 to endeavor putting him off his throne and I wish I could have used a ballot in 1926 to deprive him of the riches and property which are not his by right and use them for the relief of the poor German people who need...
...Steel (Milton Sills-Doris Kenyon). The pictorial possibilities of the steel mills are boldly seized upon by this endeavor and frittered away on a silly story. Mr. Sills plays a worker who assumes the blame for a murder, committed by the girl he loves. He escapes to the East and takes up his trade in other mills. The story follows him. The blistering scenery of steel manufacture surrounds the slothful narrative impressively. Perhaps the story might be eliminated and the remains be used for a two-reel educational...
...three husbands, nine unmarried women and a grandmother assembled last week at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for a new kind of Institute. The children were put in a special school, the husbands loitered near, while President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College explained to the attentive women: "It is an endeavor to answer the criticism that women's higher education does not have anything to do with her principal occupation* the family." We are not training cooks; we are not training welfare workers. We are giving women a liberal outlook upon the problem of the modern home in society...
...laughs, and shocked no one. It is a play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...