Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country are morons. . . . In this land of liberty (?) any addlepate can vote on an equal basis with his intelligent neighbor (if any), on any and all of the complex problems put before them. The result is that candidates for office are obliged, if they hope to be elected, to appeal to the moronic riff raff with all kinds of fool schemes and promises. . . . T. N. WALTON...
...expected that any material gathered here by the Hearst papers will be included in their appeal to the McCormack-Dickstein Senate Committee, investigating un-American activities, to oppose communism in all its manifestations...
...specific and simple character of the Townsend plan is what makes it appeal to so many people. One doubts of course whether the number of supporters is as high as the good Doctor places it, but you may rest assured it's high. Walter Lippmann, who is back in the fold again, by the way, spiked it beautifully in a couple of articles, but the people who support that sort of thing don't read articles; they read dollar signs...
...surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also escaped having the following appeal addressed to her: "Ah, Marchesa, wouldn't it be divine if we both went nuts together under a Venetian moon...
...people who like to see an involved, if improbable, tale cleverly unraveled, Piper Paid should have genuine appeal. A near-suicide, two bogus psychiatric tricks and a great deal of hysterical acting by Edith Barrett wind up an anecdote whose moral seems to be that no matter how much devilment a woman may cause, if she suffers loudly enough she may be judged to have made recompense...