Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passions & Prejudices. On July 2, 1936, at a Chicago Party banquet in his honor, new National Chairman Hamilton seconded Nominee Landon's call for a campaign of public education, declared: "We shall appeal throughout the campaign to the intelligence and not to the passions and prejudices of the citizens...
...popular in America for it is simple and educational and yet carries a full measure of thrills and danger. Explained simply, the sport consists of nothing more than going out into the woods and 'squealing up,' or calling wild animals to your side by making noises which appeal to them. . . . As is nearly always the case in London, the sport was founded on a letter to the editor of the Times. A gentleman had an idea, he wrote in, the letter was published and the game was born. . . . His description of the 'squealing up,' with...
...occasion on which it [TIME] doesn't call a spade a spade is when it lets readers see from photographs and calling would be superfluous-as it reveals those spade-faced, hedge-headed, hookwormed whites of South Carolina to whom the likes o' Jimmy Byrnes has to appeal in order to get reelected...
...doubt last week was that the cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion...
...Today, the Administration is spending money for almost every conceivable thing. It is spending even for the necessary things in ways we cannot afford-in reckless ways which are beyond our means-which would never appeal to any one who has had to work for his money-to any one who has had to face the problem of making both ends meet-to any one who has had to see to it that his bills get paid...