Word: strives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here they put together a nice little formula some time ago, about a mythical Kingdom, and a prince, and a little mistaken identity, and an American girl, and that horrid vulture "duty to state" which comes along and spoils everything, while the chorus girls mourn and strive to look desperately fetching in their pastel frocks...
...Booker T. Washington once told members of his race not to strive for social recognition. The noted Negro educator further advised his people to give up aspirations toward political power, complete civil rights, and higher education...
...founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner supports an entirely different thesis. It hoists the individual into the limelight and ignores the other ten men on his team to whom he knows what measure of personal achievement he has attained is largely, and often, almost wholly...
...aware of the pleasant hours, the interesting talk and the lifelong friendships that come from the club tables of former times. The University strove to maintain the opportunity for these things until the general preference for hasty meals in different places made it no longer possible; and it will strive to do so again as soon as a sufficient number of students will support...
...society drama was injected last week and didn't take. The golden girl of the title falls into the web of a divorce suit as unidentified correspondent. Detectives and others interested assemble at her summer home. Moments of violent sleuthing are followed by moments in which the cast strive to act exclusive. Then there is a song and dance to confuse the spectator further. Of all of this the songs were best. The rest was indolent; a crude entertainment...