Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed out the fact that for reasons unknown to anybody but himself, Old Ludwig had refused to appeal his sentence...
Leaving the luxury field to Country Life and its glossy rivals, Editor Austin concentrated on the sort of editorial features which would appeal to home-owners and would-be home-owners of lesser incomes. She posed for photographs to illustrate practical articles on cooking and home decoration. She published helpful hints for cultivators of small, suburban gardens. She went into the details of furnishing a family camp. Housewives were instructed on combining a guest room and study,were told what an espalier fruit tree is and how unpretentious Anne Morrow Lindbergh's aerial wardrobe contains one pair of shoes...
Thus the beauty of Orator Hitler's daily and twice-daily speeches to German voters last week was that he said almost everything backwards as well as forwards in alternate moods similar to Wagnerian music and having a similar appeal to the German soul. Intellectual tests of consistency the cheering throngs did not apply; they simply revelled. The Great Orator filled them fuller & fuller to bursting with his simple themes: GERMANY, BLOOD & SOIL, HONOR...
...simmered in every U. S. opera community. For those who believe that the texts should be comprehensible to all, there are as many who want their operas the way they were written. The advocates of anglicized opera maintain that theirs is the one solution for broadening opera's appeal in the U. S., point to the fact that in European opera houses performances are almost always given in the language of the country...
...where unconcerned spectators are present merely "to see the fun". At other times meetings have degenerated into riots. Affirmatively regarded, an indoor meeting is more suitable, for peace, unfortunately, is not an essentially emotional subject, and its "message" cannot be most effectively delivered by a hoarse stump-speaker. Its appeal, devoid of such window-dressing as bands and flags, must be primarily made to reason...