Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this neutrality debate, the anti-repealers have the strategic edge. Made-to-order is the dramatic slogan: "Repeal means war." It fits nicely into newspaper headlines; it has an overwhelming, if irrational, appeal; it is difficult to answer. The supporters of repeal must resort to logic, to reason, to fact in their argument; and such an approach is never so effective in the political arena. Moreover, the fundamental argument for repeal, that a shortening of the war's duration and an increase in the Allies' chances of victory maximize America's chances of staying at peace--this argument cannot...
...simply was out. And the French mood last week was such that any element which could possibly be called subversive was under pressure of cracking weight. Leon Blum, the Socialist leader who three years ago gave France a brief "New Deal" as Premier, wrote in his Le Populaire: "I appeal to the Communist chiefs, and I adjure them once more-let them cry out to the country that their pact with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow and that they...
...vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...
...prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...
...flight comic strips are today consciously comic, few still appeal primarily to children. Like movies and pulp fiction, they are mostly simple narratives for the unsophisticated of all ages. First comic-strip character to find high adventure in Europe's war was the Register and Tribune Syndicate's Jane Arden girl reporter for a mythical newspaper...