Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words were unexciting but got their emphasis from a certain waspishness of voice. Of the Big Four meeting: "We are all glad to see this rather delayed improvement . . ." "Clem," summed up one old party man, "is the greatest asset we have." A pipe-smoking, Christian, suburban respectability is his appeal...
...Phillips Brooks House Association, Red Feather, Student Jewish Appeal, National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, and the American Friends Service Committee, in that order, received the largest shares of allocated funds...
...Victor Wolfson, basing it on a memorable old tear-jerker of a play which was later made into a movie. The present rehashing of the story about a World War I affair between a chanteuse of doubtful reputation and a Parisian sewer-cleaner has lost most of the pathetic appeal of the original. Instead, the authors introduce a trio of prostitutes for comedy relief, whose constant jokes about the state of business can seldom even raise an eyebrow and much less a laugh...
Play Me Hearts and Flowers (Johnny Desmond; Coral). The only possible explanation for this item as a bestseller lies in the slightly revolting appeal of a grown man asking for tears...
...Sukhanov was hauled up in a dress rehearsal of the confession-and-purge trials to come. The charge : promoting Western military intervention to destroy the Soviet state. He pleaded guilty. Once in jail, however, he wrote an indignant appeal to the government - now run by the "grey blur" - and circulated a copy through the jail. Among other things, Sukhanov demanded that the GPU honor its promise "to release those willing to make untrue confessions." No one ever heard from him again...