Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence but Henry Hardtner, Alexandria lumber...
Japanese newspapers scare-headed a "Reed Conspiracy," pointing to the nonrecognition of Manchukuo by France and Britain and to an appeal which President Hoover made last week urging Germany to re-enter the Geneva Armaments Conference (TIME, Sept. 26). When Secretary Stimson told United Press that he was "unaware" of Senator Reed's conversations in London and Paris the vocal comment of many a top-hatted, frock-coated European statesman...
...Church of England brought no charges against Lawyer Machray. To rebuild the depleted fund, the income of which was from $60,000 to $70,000 a year, it was proposed that an appeal be sent to Anglican laymen throughout Canada. Saddest was the case of venerable, white- bearded Archbishop Matheson, onetime primate of all Canada. He admitted he had " lost everything," including $9,000 in savings, an $8,000 house...
...this very fact there is a danger. It may be that people will grow weary of paying good money to watch a show they do not comprehend. But horse racing is as old as civilization and promises to live to the end of time. 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, like many other investments that seemed so fair only three years...
...alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth), kills him with a sword. If the crowd approves a matador and his suertes (manoeuvres), there are rhythmic chants of "Olé! Olé!" A bad performance brings a shower of cushions and curses. Says Hemingway: "Now the essence of the greatest emotional appeal of bullfighting is the feeling of immortality that the bullfighter feels in the middle of a great faena and that he gives to the spectators. He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know...