Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first three years I began to feel that, in order to have any sex appeal, I should manage to get at least one divorce. The fact that I had overlooked this in my twenties perhaps accounted for the fact that only my husband had never spoken to me about passionate love...
...both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice, and that in making laws they respect the spirit...
...best basketball players in the U. S., 100 come from Indiana. To that State, flat as a huge gymnasium floor, basketball has an overwhelming, universal appeal, like skiing in Norway, hockey in Canada. In the backyard of almost every Indiana house where children live is a basketball court of some sort, often with bottomless peach baskets instead of nets...
...have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
Most of these interested people stayed away from the game but they would have been present if the admission had included an event which would appeal to a Harvard audience. Intramural sports are an important part of the present athletic policy but they will never flourish until the H.A.A. devotes greater care to arranging the key events of intramural schedules...