Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minority Leader Snell went into the well to make the Republican retort: "I've listened to the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee's speech of acceptance. ... He has made a more direct appeal for class distinction than has been made this session. If the Speaker ever made a demagogic appeal, he made that appeal here today...
...town in southeastern Kansas, Girard by name, a rude little newspaper used to yip and snap at President McKinley 35 years ago. As each successive Administration took office, it too was baited by the Kansas weekly. So was Capitalism. In the course of 20 years the paper-called The Appeal to Reason- piled up subscribers by the million. Girard had to be given a first-class postoffice. For all its viciousness, all its revolutionary effort, The Appeal to Reason left no record of accomplishment. But an incident of its career was to prove more important than the paper itself...
...years later he became professor of medical history there. The next year he went to Leipzig, remained there until Johns Hopkins got him. He has travelled over most of the world with a hip-pocket camera. He develops his pictures in his bathroom. But his lectures are prepared to appeal to the ear. Says he: "Too many lectures read well in print and prove disappointing when read from a platform...
...Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey addressed his appeal to all Oxford men and Oxford women, "scattered all over the habitable world, and who carry through life an affection for Oxford which to them must be a precious possession...
...presented successive null at $1 top price, culminating in 1930 with one in which there were elephants as well as camels and horses (TIME, July 28,1930). Aiming to exploit music "on a basis consistent with the dignity of grand opera but with the ballyhoo that will bring its appeal to the proletariat," Maestro Salmaggi planned for Washington a performance with 500 supers from the local unemployed, horses from Fort Myer, elephants and camels from National Zoological Park. After two postponements Aïda was performed in Washington by a troupe including Soprano Leonora Corona, Baritone Pasquale Amato and members...