Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...
Wellesley College in proved to be the temporary residence of those females who appeal the most, for the present at least, to the literary instincts of Harvard men. An average of 100, letters a day left the Cambridge station for Wellesley ladies between the hours of 9, and 3 o'clock each day. Letters which were the creations of inspirations of the twilight hour or evening left Cambridge through the central station, where their numbers could not be detected...
...wisely avoided public discussion of the future, specific and inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany, social ineligibility, dripping...
Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...
...would reach 4,500,000, perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal to Cuban producers to conclude a "Gentleman's Agreement...