Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...
...winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured. . . ." In 1923 Mr. Savage became Leffingwell Professor in Yale University's School of Fine Arts. Within three years he had made the Prix de Rome practically a monopoly of the Yale School of Fine Arts. The "Little Savages" he taught painted...
...circulating the petition, the Liberal Club made no extravagant claims. The calmness of the approach explains to a large extent its encouraging results. Direct action, however minor, combating the current tendency towards exaggerated "Americanism," is definitely valuable--more so than volumes of speeches. A petition has a dramatic appeal that literary efforts can never achieve...
Such a rare and welcome contrast to current attitudes of other college authorities is to be commended. With other college papers and magazines being suspended with much less cause by oversensitive legislators, Harvard at least can say, "We appeal to college men who are expected to be mature enough to think for themselves, requiring university advisors, not mental policemen." Again Harvard shows a clear and sensible attitude, rather than a follow the leader impulse. Brown Daily Herald...
...ancient as merchandizing itself, premium promotion still has an unfailing appeal to the something-for-nothing instinct- though some companies make a tidy profit on their premiums by requesting cash along with wrappers, box tops, coupons and other evidences of consuming interest. In periods of stiff competition premium promotion shaves close to outright price-cutting, and a strenuous effort was made to ban premiums in XRA codes. But the premium makers succeeded in keeping no-premium clauses out of all except the Bakers and Oil Codes, are currently thriving. Another boon that has helped loft premium sales in the past...