Word: strove
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...friends who knew him best will continue to "carry on" and to bring to full fruition the ideals that he strove so gallantly to accomplish during his all too short lifetime, requiescat in pace and continued honor to his memory...
...silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept it and at the frontier barrier Her Royal Highness learned that her sleepy Dutch maid had bundled into the rumble $10,000 worth of gowns which had come to her "on approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling...
...story is fortunately not doctored by Hollywood artistry, so that the tragedy stands as it was written, without attempt at high-speed action or crusading for social reform. Delicate handling of the whole gives an outstanding example of that art for which the romanticists strove...
...last week obese Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring strove fretfully in Vienna to kill time, loitering in shops unrecognized. When he tried to inspect the Habsburg Treasures, an unimpressed attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just...
...Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, strove to uphold British rights of freedom to demonstrate, but he thought it necessary to cancel all police leaves and send 10,000 Bobbies to keep order in East London. Too late to avert the riot, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Philip Game informed Sir Oswald that mobsters were getting out of hand and the 5,000 Fascists could not be allowed to march. In a closed car, the windshield of which was quickly smashed by a paving stone, the Fascist leader rushed to his lined-up Blackshirts, yelled "Sir Philip has banned the march...