Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time no united Germany or reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...
...Their Majesty's four sons the Duke of Gloucester is the most diplomatic. Asked "what is your favorite flower?" he adroitly replied. "Flowers of all kind appeal to me." Their daughter, Princess Mary (now the Princess Royal) is known to be devoted to her husband, the spindle-shanked Earl of Harewood. despite a local conviction that he drinks to excess. Most satisfactory of course are the Duke & Duchess of York, except that their two children are girls, Princess ("Baby Betty") Elizabeth and Princess Mary Rose...
...World was founded in 1901, soon claimed the largest U. S. monthly distribution record (2,000,000) but never made money. It was finally taken over by the company which supplied its paper, sold in 1917 to the late Walter Webster Manning, who continued the policy of small-town appeal. Last year Publisher Manning died, leaving the magazine to his sons Conant and Gordon. Gordon Manning, who got his first publishing experience as business manager for the Princeton Tiger (1928-29), ran the advertising end in Manhattan. His brother directed the publication in Chicago...
Four political manipulators who can nominate a President tell a dour statesman that he lost the nomination and his one chance for national sex appeal when Claudette Colbert refused to marry him. But when they see a medicine show in which a silver-tongued mountebank and his assistant (Jimmy Durante) are selling their medical compound, they see the natural resemblance between the showman (Actor Cohan) and the Statesman (Actor Cohan). They hatch a plan to elect the statesman president on the show-window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture...
...slated for government control. The resolution passed at Leicester is essentially an impatient repetition of the old cry: "Socialism in our day." Today it appears that the intellectual socialist element is dissatisfied with its past role of adviser to the stand-pat trade unions, and intends to renew its appeal by turning to the professions and to the bourgeois classes in general...