Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wampus: full credit, after examination of the evidence, for originating "Mmmm" to designate general sex appeal. Awgwan went a step further, used "O-ooo" to define masculine appeal...
...State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal Government to prosecute him. But the brewer could also appeal to the LT. S. on the ground that he was engaged in legitimate interstate commerce with a non-intoxicating beverage, that it was the Federal Government's job to prevent State interference, even by force of arms. Only by an appeal to the Supreme Court could...
...years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or twelve pigs. It's the old sow that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they...
...wrangling as plan after plan for bank-opening was proposed, dissected, discarded. But when the final decision was reached early last week, Detroit was in an uproar. Police Commissioner James K. Watkins led the opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some 10,000, divided...
...abortion and full bloom, is in line with House ties, House waistcoats, and even, in a quiet way, with House bells; like all these steps, it is a link in the long chain destined to bind the House tradition. Antedated by the Kirkland Alumni Bulletin, it lacks the mild appeal of novelty; but further than this, like all such publications, it has a vague taint, reminiscent of boy's club circulars, and the bulletins of Ladies Aid Societies, which is likely to condemn it in the eyes of many...