Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure, played the largest part; Republicans were in office when the crisis broke, they failed immediately to overcome it, they must be the butt. An equal share of credit, however, must go to the Democratic campaign managers. Aggressive from the start, James Farley outlined a program that would appeal to every class of people; speakers were admirably fitted to audiences, texts to local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality, the franctic last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover. More-over, to a nation oppressed with...
...Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. . . . He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays?but he always pays. He is flattered before election. He is strongly patriotic. He is a commonplace man. He gives no trouble. He excites no admiration...
...Second Common Reader, a sequel to her first collection of critical essays, will appeal more to library-haunters than to débutantes, though anybody who likes good writing might enjoy them. In 26 brief, graceful, revealing essays Authoress Woolf conducts you on a tour of the minor masterpieces of English literature and their makers-from the great late Elizabethans to the late great Thomas Hardy. In her concluding paper ("How Should One Read a Book?") she drops a cogent hint to readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction...
...would circulate from House to House as a narrow eating club, because one's imaginings are perhaps worse than the reality. Personally I think that the eating of a certain number of meals in the House is essential, though on the other hand, if the House exercises no other appeal, compulsory meals of themselves will not build up the corporate personality--rather the opposite. Possibly the present arrangement is not the best adapted to secure the eating of a reasonable number of meals in the House by its members. Undoubtedly there is much to be said against my general thesis...
...sort of event on which the old grads and the undergrads can bet in more ways than they can even in football. In the third place, it has the great advantage that the whole audience, including the feminine part, can understand it. ... It has a universal human appeal. It is more conservative to tie up to horse racing as a steady income than to football, which has indeed proved a paying investment in recent years, but which may go bad in the market at any moment. . . . Think what a pot of money a Harvard-Yale horse race would take...