Word: effort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
Naughty Marietta is that lovely effort of Victor Herbert which contains the waltz "I'm Falling in Love with Someone." Use Marvenga's voice is as lissom as her figure. The third of a series of Victor Herbert revivals (TIME, Oct. 7), it is splendidly recreated in every detail...
...University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks had had masterful direction, beginning with the selling of U. S. securities by the French Government and other European investors weeks...
...despising Protestant Episcopal Church. His name is Monell Sayre. His eminence in the church began when it became apparent that Episcopalian ministers should be pensioned and famed Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, stepping in where others had failed, raised $9,000,000. Bishop Lawrence's aide in that effort, then secretary, now executive vice president of the Pension Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was and is substantial, trim-trotting Monell Sayre...