Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Retreat to Pleasure (by Irwin Shaw, produced by The Group Theatre) is an embarrassing attempt to mix farce, comedy and lofty social sentiments. A beautiful Ohio WPA administrator takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
Lord Lothian did not attempt to argue that the U. S. should altruistically go to Britain's aid. His argument was simply that Hitler is a threat to the U. S. and that U. S. self-interest should dictate aid to Britain. Twice repeating that the decision was up to the U. S., he practically said that on the U. S. decision depends the fate of Britain, the outcome of the war, probably the future of the U. S. and all democracy...
...Program of Naziism. But the war is not yet won. Do not think that Hitler and Nazidom are going to be easily overthrown. Hitler is certainly going to make another attempt next year-and earlier rather than later-to beat down our resistance by new methods and still greater violence, and so open the way to world domination for the Nazis...
Efforts of Government and press had failed to speed the evacuation of London's remaining children. The mass transplantation reached a peak in October, when 10,000 women & children registered in a single day, but then it stalled. In a final attempt, London's big dailies wrote long, persuasive feature stories. The Ministry of Health fired a barrage of publicity. Leaflets explained "Why You Should Let Your School Children Go." Its advertisements asked: "Mothers, Are Your Children Still in the Danger Areas?" Six hundred door-to-door canvassers drank thousands of cups of tea in thousands of kitchens...
...years ago she was transferred to the Federal Prison in Mexico City. Belonging to an order of nuns whose vows are not perpetual, she was presently released, married another prisoner who had been sentenced for a previous attempt on Obregon. A priest, Father Jose Jimenez, also serving a term, for complicity in the Obregon murder, performed the ceremony. Fortnight ago, the pressure of popular opinion and the hard work of her previously released husband induced new President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who wants to be friends with the Church, to commute her term. As her fellow prisoners waved tearful farewells...