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Word: appealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dancing flaunts no stunting stars like the three tall-hatted hoofers in "Hold Everything"; its appeal is therefore the more inexplicable. Marjorie Peterson, as Nanette, leads two choruses in dances of a grace that never needs the musical comedy elbow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...Ogden, Utah. Nominee Robinson cried out upon "the appeal to passion and prejudice." En route from Boise to Ogden, he was presented with pheasants, venison, fruits of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...opinion intelligent people will turn more and more to Smith between now and election day. The only Republican argument cutting much ice is the old prosperity one, which makes little appeal to educated people. They know that prosperity is due not to the federal administration, but to the development of natural resources in business, stimulated in America by conditions in Europe. The quantity of free capital in America is due to the same cause and the fact that quantity production has been greatly perfected during the last decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PINCHOT APPROVES POLL RESULTS SHOWING SMITH POPULAR WITH COLLEGE | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

From Dublin to Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries came a famed horse canvas. It is Friends by John F. Herring, in which four Dobbins are shown placidly chomping foliage in the company of pigeons. Reproductions of Friends hang in half a million U. S. homes where horse-appeal means more than esthetics. Artist Herring was a British coachman, painted inn signboards, countless glossy thoroughbreds. Unlike Rosa Bonheur, he was not primarily concerned with equine rhythms, taut muscles. But he waxed sentimental over horses' heads, manes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vexed Venable | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Corps the man is dead. He moves in complete dissociation from all other men. His one recourse is to resign, for the silence will follow him all his life. He will be a marked man. He has had his trial he has been fairly judged, and there is no appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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