Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society will be able to sponsor another exhibition, because subscriptions from members outside the University have diminished, and despite the fact that student membership trebled last year, the Society can no longer afford to maintain its gallery. If this exhibition, however, increases popular interest sufficiently, and if the appeal for funds that is being sent out succeeds, the society plans to hold an exhibition in one of the downstairs galleries of the Germanic Museum sometime during the middle of May. At this time, the works of some living French artist of note will be shown...
...most eloquent appeal for funds thus far was made last week by Geraldine Farrar. White-haired and chic, she appeared on the Metropolitan stage between acts at Parsifal, so roused the audience that people started to hand checks and dollar bills over the footlights. Next night Mrs. August Belmont spoke and three of her friends (Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Robert Goelet) waved $1,000 checks from the Diamond Horseshoe. Contributions of $10,000, biggest individual ones so far, came from Pierre du Pont and Louis Eckstein who still hopes to be able to give...
...water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal not to be denied...
...loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also distracts the heathen big black Brother Moses from pure contemplation of the moon. Back in Hope Baptist Church, Pastor Jones is conducting a six-day camp meeting to bring his straying lamb back...
...saved the life of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Author-Musician John Erskine, in his capacity as president of the Juilliard School of Music, said so. Fifty thousand Juilliard dollars had been given outright toward the $300,000 needed to guarantee another opera season (TIME, Feb. 20). Should public appeal fail to bring in the rest. Mr. Erskine implied that the Juilliard would make up the difference. Stipulations had been made, he said, to which the Metropolitan had agreed: more encouragement would be given to U. S. singers and composers; Juilliard students would be permitted to attend rehearsals; a supplementary season...