Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel buttered the Dictator and Italy in a manner which struck anti-Fascist Labor M.P.'s as rancid. "We have no wish to humiliate Italy nor to weaken Italy," cried Britain's Secretary. "Indeed, we are most anxious to see a strong Italy in the world. ... I appeal once more to Signor Mussolini and his fellow countrymen. . . . Let them dismiss from their minds the suspicion that we wish to weaken Signor Mussolini's position and destroy the Fascist regime. . . . There is not a nation taking part in the collective action of the League that would...
Unlike German Fascists, Lawrence Dennis makes no appeal to anti-Semitic prejudices, nor does he denounce "international bankers and Marxists" as the cause of all the mischief in the world. His chief opponent is liberalism, which he variously describes as muddled, sentimental, irrational. Believing that a major war will break out within five years, he holds that "liberal capitalism'' will involve the U. S. in the conflict in much the way that the U. S. joined the Allies in 1917. About equally divided between attacks on prevailing economic fallacies and less precise descriptions of the future dictatorship...
...inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...
...convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most...
...could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped dieting, promptly swelled to 181. Last summer, not an ounce lighter in spite of four fretful years, Miss Freistater appealed her application for a permanent teacher's job to State Commissioner of Education Frank P. Graves (TIME, July 29). Said Rose's husky father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big & strong." Said Rose's counsel: "You can see for yourself...