Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made to restore to Gounod's musical classic a dramatic illusion in story that will appeal to the intelligence and will also serve to incorporate, with the music a rational source from which that music may be seen to derive...
...Young Alsace." Orator Poincaré concluded his electioneering appeal last week, thus...
...perhaps, to be regretted that the cultural and religious training of a still younger generation hereabouts must suffer through the failure of the student body to give sufficient response to the appeal of the Brooks House. But to the demands of nearly all the extracurricular activities, with the significant exception of the theatre, the opera, and the buying of books, has the response been similarly passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House...
...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
Soon General Groener launched a rousing, emotional appeal in defense of his budget estimates. Cried he: "The Versailles Treaty shackles us in a manner scarcely endurable to a sovereign nation...