Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris of Nebraska was making an impassioned appeal to the Senate in behalf of his Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect Presidents and Vice Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...appeal of the book lies in its delineation of a repulsive, animal type of existence, the product of political chaos, poverty, and moral degeneration which is probably, and moral degeneration which is probably better understood in France than in America. Thus, though it seems to strike a traditional response in the French public, we predict that in America it will not rise far above a secondary position as a "best seller...
...Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared on some Stavisky check stubs (TIME, April 2). Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Raymond Hubert who jumped into the Seine and Henri Hurlaux, Assistant Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, who tried to drink poison. Mile Taris, witness for the prosecution, tried to jump into a canal. Racing down to Lorient after the police newshawks found that young Marguerite Henriot had been murdered and she was related by marriage to Philippe Henriot but she was not killed in the garden...
...this point it was necessary for Japanese militarists to put in a word. In an impassioned address before the assembled governors of Japanese prefectures, chunky Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, Minister of the Navy, demanded immediate increase in Japan's sea forces. "We appeal to your support for this program which is essential to protect Japan from her enemies," cried he. "The next naval conference will not concern the Navy alone, but may decide the destiny of the Empire. Japan must take this opportunity to free herself from unfavorable restrictions." In Geneva Japan pulled wires to force the withdrawal...
...faithfully until it founders. Her husband becomes more & more of a problem. As this first volume ends, Hervey is beginning to find an answer to her difficulties by getting to be a moderately successful novelist. A chronicle-novel by a painfully honest contemporary chronicler, Company Parade will not appeal to readers romantically inclined. But critics, most of whom consider Author Jameson's feet in the right path, will acknowledge that she is making a long stride forward...