Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...things turned out Oxford did not have to wait that long. Night after Lord Stanley's appeal 30 broad and beefy Oxonians gathered outside the Union's double doors during a meeting, put shoulders to the doors and burst them...
...true that debating at Harvard is not an attractive activity. To the student who is not genuinely interested in argumentative speaking, or who is not intent on improving his own forensic ability, without going through at course in Public Speaking, the Varsity Debating Council offers little appeal. The organization is decidedly hampered by the lack of any permanent home or the use of any satisfactory auditorium. Although the Corporation gives the Council two hundred dollars annually, the sum, while generous, fails to cover much more than administrative expenses; consequently the activities of the Council are, for the most part, limited...
...permanent memorial to President Eliot from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was proposed in a legislative bill by the Metropolitan Improvement Association, which believed that, with his centennial drawing near, the proposal is most opportune and would appeal to all Harvard men, whose support and cooperation is invited...
This is a book that will have of necessity a limited appeal. It is neither the sort of thing that one would buy for inspiration or sheer amusement. As its title page suggests, it is a bibliography of books about printing and the technical side of book-production, their history and presentday adaptation. As a result, it will attract for the most part, those interested in fine books, in publishing and in printing treated...