Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Winterset will fail to appeal to the cinema's mass audience is likely. As an investment for RKO it can therefore be measured mainly as an introduction to the cinema public of several new faces...
Through Phillips Brooks House comes an appeal for more volunteers to do social service work. This form of extracurricular activity has been going on for many years unnoticed by a large majority of graduates and undergraduates. The time requirements are only two hours a week. Many men do not understand the main motives behind...
Admitting that "divorced from its illegalities the Institute offers certain opportunities for affecting desirable results," Judge Mack did not order dissolution, although an injunction against the price-fixing practices was issued. On appeal, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Mack findings last spring with a few minor modifications. Its pristine vitality gone, its name more a liability than an asset, the Sugar Institute meantime whittled down its activities to the gathering of innocent sugar statistics. Publicly the sugar men took their legal spanking in good grace. Privately they complain that other trade associations were, and still are, getting away with things...
...imposing tomes of Professor Morison's history of Harvard appeal too ominous, if you are interested only in the amusing side of Harvard's 300 years, if you were involved last year in the Lowell House dining fare rebellion, then "Dicts and Riots" deserves a special place in your bookcase. Mr. Bevis has written an analysis of Harvard's history from 1636 to 1936 from the illuminating point of view of its students' alimentary canals...
William Powell plays expertly the vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld...