Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...synthesis of a lifetime of reading and travel into a plausible system for directing civilization; as such it may appeal to Harvard men unsatisfied with the specific details of daily classes and the restricted subjects of their theses. For those who like to discuss in leisurely fashion the facts and philosophies of history and their bearing on current problems of religion and on such personal problems as fraternities, and who wish to formulate standards of judgment and conduct, this book should be a stimulus, presenting as it does much wide-ranging information with the common sense of an American gentleman
...itch to play politics overcame him again in 1924 and he ably commanded the Coolidge western campaign. In 1928 he looked around for another Presidential winner. He looked at General Dawes and looked away. He looked at Secretary Hoover, saw his popular appeal, pitied his political inexperience. Again he took command, this time of the Hoover preconvention campaign, doing a miraculous job of amalgamating the heterogeneous Hoover following. After the nomination, Mr. Hoover begged him to stay on as Western manager. Reluctantly he did. There was less begging, less reluctance, to get Mr. Good into the Hoover Cabinet...
...thought. The university man is one of the few who can formulate ideas without having the question of earning a living predominating his ideas. On the other hand, the objection that the college is merely a catalogue of theories, is disproved by this Princeton plan, for it proposes an appeal to actual conditions as the final proof of the validity of its conclusions...
...appeal to the bootleggers will be made on moral grounds...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, according to custom, took no part in a case before the U. S. Supreme Court, last week, in which his niece-in-law, Elizabeth C. Taft of Detroit, lost an appeal to escape a $2,040 tax on her 1923 income...