Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your circulation department sends me a letter showing why we should patronize your magazine. I formerly thought your magazine was a rather dependable institution and read it every week. Lately, however, your magazine undertook to publish a statement of the impeachment effort made against me in this state (TIME, April 8). It is almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken...
...vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much...
...federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal survey of Dr. Glueck, is a really national necessity in this country. Whether these interesting elements will prove to be a substantial legal code is open to conjecture. At least it shows a serious effort on the part of a nation hitherto wavering in legal policies to come to grips with a problem which is really affecting universal attention...
...cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With the effort of his concert tour still a few weeks away, it must have seemed odd to him to find his easy reflection interrupted by a sharp and growing discomfort in his side...
...manner of effort could infuse life into the lives, or still the resentment that Herbert could not have had a collaborator as worthy as Sir Arthur Sullivan...