Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most encouraging is Mr. Poor, who, with "In Defense of Democracy," makes a stirring though somewhat verbose appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements...
...answer comes from the mouth of a tuberculous young genius (Burgess Meredith) who visits the Jacklins' home to look at their pictures, rages against the folly of war, is stricken by one of his mysterious headaches. In a trance, he echoes the dying poet's feverish appeal for Naomi's forgiveness, finishes the verse. Mrs. Jacklin realizes that all her life since the War has been an empty acceptance of the "second best...
...Refinancing on this scale," said Secretary Morgenthau, "has the quality of high adventure." And reminding the country of Britain's great War-loan refunding program, which included a six-month ban on new private capital issues and a purple appeal to public patriotism, he declared: "Here we have handled this same transaction so easily, and in such a commonplace manner, that many people have undoubtedly been unaware of its nature or significance...
Addressing to America a stirring appeal to save Europe and herself by turning to the principles of socialism, Harold J. Laski, professor of Political Science at the University of London and onetime Harvard Lecturer on Government, in turn inspired, amused, and enlightened a capacity audience in Ford Hall Forum last night...
...feeling viciously insulted when I am brought face to face with such a situation. I cannot help feeling that something should be done to bring about the demise of anything so subtly derogatory to the character of all Harvard men. The only thing I can think of is to appeal directly and frankly to those instincts of honor which lie latent in the breasts of our most confirmed evildoers...