After all the mad attempts to acquire the thing, everyone suddenly decides that, well, maybe we really don't care about this so much anyway.

It was through this inner door that the two prisoners had fled after their mad attempt to kill The Shadow.

He made a mad attempt to free himself.

He didn't even hear Margo's fervent call, warning him to give up the mad attempt.

He remembered her frantic, mad attempts to leave the house, driven, or pulled, by something outside herself.

To Diane's distraught mind there was but one prospect, that of a mad attempt at escape, no matter how implausible the chance might be.

Hearing The Shadow's laugh behind them, thugs made the mad attempt.

"Do you mean to say that my father in a mad attempt to usurp the functions of God created that awful thing?"

Nor was there any to say what had prompted that mad attempt.

So this was to be the termination of my mad attempt to reach Mars!