Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
Died. Henry King Braky, 78, senior justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, onetime mayor of Fall River; after a long illness; in Boston. Justice Braley handed down the court decision on the last Sacco-Vanzetti appeal...
Hardly any story of science has a more romantic appeal than that of the spectra of the stars...
Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and powwows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or the pigs perish, appeal to the U. S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there...
...vice-president of the class, J. W. Potter '30, class secretary, and A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, were present, it was decided that the balance of argument against the dance and in favor of it could be adjusted best by a direct appeal to the members of the class concerned...