Word: strove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most irked was Delegate Samuel P. ("Waiting Game") McReynolds. To lash the Press he took to the air in a trans-Atlantic broadcast over the Columbia System. Artful, he strove to make out that it was only to the European Press that the U. S. delegation's difficulties seemed ludicrous. Said he: "I want to say that no delegation to an international conference ever met as fierce a barrage of criticism as that which practically all the British and French Press have leveled at us. ... I need not tell an American audience that these stories were as unfounded...
...Miss Kay Fwancis, of her melancholy moping and her distorted R's, one can only say that she is not worth listening to. Truly, the grand style of acting which strove for depth of emotion and purity of diction is gone forever. In its place is the Ibsenesque problem drama forty years late; this treats of the momentous question of what a woman should do when she does not love her husband, is being blackmailed by man, and wishes to daily with a lover. This pleases the public...
...President to close all the banks in the land with one pen-flourish; it was quite another thing for his Secretary of the Treasury to get them open again. The machinery for such an operation was enormous and Mr. Woodin had scant knowledge of it. Day after day he strove to master new details at his cluttered desk while harassed bankers gathered in his outer office from every quarter of the country to clamor for Treasury concessions, instructions. Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House whence he would go directly home...
...faithful servant and companion, was usually pictured by his side. But China had no lions and most Chinese had never seen one. At last some sharp-eyed follower of the Emperor noticed how strikingly the Court's tawny little dogs resembled Buddha's lion. Eunuchs thenceforth strove to breed lion-like characteristics into the dog. In time it progressed from being an imitation lion, became itself a sacred symbol...
...hundred and fifty favored subscribers received a bewildering book last week. Most of them strove earnestly to interpret it because of the prominence of its illustrator, pretty, dark-haired Maude Phelps Hutchins, wife of young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago. Its title was Diagrammatics...